Stephen Bayley Quotes

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

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

It's easy to forget who you are.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

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.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.