Rhys Ifans Quotes

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

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

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I live my life like an 85-year-old man.

When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.

I used to lie about my age at first because you always want to be 18, but then you start looking at it and you're 40, and the money's still coming. And you're like, 'Man, who cares about that?'

I live in today and take it slowly.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I feel like you're only young once.

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.