Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Even at the age of 36, I'm always looking at ways to improve.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Few people know how to be old.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I'm just getting older and better.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated; you can elaborate and pinpoint special things a little clearer.