Martin Scorsese Quotes

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

As you grow older, you change.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Some age, others mature.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that's normal... The whole fame thing hasn't hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn't.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.