Pauline Kael Quotes

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.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

In my 20s, it was very hard to go, 'I'm heavier than that girl.' Getting older makes a huge difference.