Mariska Hargitay Quotes

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.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

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.

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

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

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

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

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.