Kerr Smith Quotes

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

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.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.

I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger.

When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. And I think that's a very universal thing, I don't think it's unique to me at all. People I've talked to in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s have all told me "You know, I still feel 20." So I don't expect that I'm going to be any different.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.