John A. Powell Quotes

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I softened in my old age.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

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.

Every experience makes you grow.

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

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

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

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

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

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Growing old is not growing up.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.