Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

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

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

As I get older, I find I cry much more often than I did.

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.

What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.