Jeryl Prescott Quotes

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

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.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

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

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

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.

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.

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

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

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

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.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.