Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

I just really love hanging out with really old people. They're the best dinner dates you could ever have. All that life experience and understanding.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I've been around older guys most of my life; I feel like that's definitely an advantage for me.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.