Elias Koteas Quotes

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I think I've got wiser.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

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

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

All experience is good experience.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.