Ben Barnes Quotes

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Adults are obsolete children.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

The older you get, the more you learn.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

I think you get better as you get older.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

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

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'

I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.

I'm different now than I was when I was 20 years old.