Joanna Lumley Quotes

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

Presumably, with age, you mellow down.

With time, you learn to be calmer.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.