Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

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

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

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.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

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