Richard Griffiths Quotes

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

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 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.

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

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn't know that was going to happen.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

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

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

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

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

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.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.

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

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

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

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

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 think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.