Brie Larson Quotes

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

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.

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

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

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.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

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.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Ultimately, everyone's life is complex, and it's good to show that.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

As you get older your own problems are not that interesting.