Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it's less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.