June Whitfield Quotes

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Los Macorinos are much older than I am so when you surround yourself with older people you realize they lived what we're living now. They live in a moment of peace because they don't have to prove anything anymore.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

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

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.