Walter Brennan Quotes

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

We know it's a young man's game.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Years are not important, my dear.

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.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.