Fiona Bruce Quotes

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

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.

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 think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.

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

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

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

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

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

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

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

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.

Love has more depth as you get older.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

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.

As you get older, you look at things differently.