Ingmar Bergman Quotes

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

One should mature over 20 years.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.