Ben Eine Quotes

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.