Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

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

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

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

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

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.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.