Tom Hanks Quotes

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I've never been scared of aging.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20.