Patrick Marber Quotes

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

You slow down when you get older.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

You can't be 16 forever.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

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.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

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

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

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

He's 78 years old... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.