Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I've matured, I understand the game much more, which can be natural as you grow up.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

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

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

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.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

Wisdom begins at the end.

I think I've got wiser.

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.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.