Miriam Margolyes Quotes

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I don't want to be 25 again.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

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

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.