Deborah Kerr Quotes

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

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

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.