Ron Perlman Quotes

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

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

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.