Tony Burton Quotes

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

Every experience makes you a man.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I think you get better as you get older.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

People grow up by living.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

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.

School is a foretaste of life.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.