Richard C. Armitage Quotes

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.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

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

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.

I've experienced the highest of highs and been in every single position, and that has taught me so much.

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.