Miranda Hart Quotes

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

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

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

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.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

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.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

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

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

I'm glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.

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

I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.