Lee Haney Quotes

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

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

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

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.

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

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

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

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

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.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

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

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

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

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

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

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.