Patricia Kaas Quotes

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.

In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

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

When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a broader view of life. You get your inspiration from many different places.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

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

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I think until you reach your mid-30s, there's either a real acceptance of where you are or a resignation of where you are.

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