Mandy Patinkin Quotes

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

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 feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

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

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

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

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.