Abi Morgan Quotes

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

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

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

Don’t ever talk until you know what you’re talking about…

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

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.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

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

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.