Oksana Baiul Quotes

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I am too old to think.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

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

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

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

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

I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.