William Petersen Quotes

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

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.

I was 19 or 20 the last time I shaved.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once you get used to it, it's not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

Losing friends is the worst thing about getting older.

I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

The older I get, the more grays are popping out. They're definitely all over my beard.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

Getting a grey beard's not cool.