Melanie Griffith Quotes

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

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.

Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that.