James M. Cain Quotes

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

I've always thought 45 to 55 is a great time for guys: Your body has filled out. Your face doesn't look old, but you're weathered enough to look like you know what you're talking about.

As you grow older, maturity naturally comes to you. And it shows on your face. It's true not only about looks, but your maturity should also reflect in your performances.

I think I have aged gracefully.

Now that I'm 40, I knew I wasn't going to pass for 25.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Of course, anybody's who's 26 years old will probably say, "Of course the old guy would say that." But wait until you're 45 or 46 years old. See how you feel about it then.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

Years do not always make age.

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years ago now, my interpretation of that scene would be totally different. I would be making different choices. Because I can't somehow subtract all of the experiences that I've had in my life. And it's fascinating to see, because somewhere I'm very reflective in that. You know, I've been playing basically actually close to 40 years old, so I'm somewhere lost in age in this movie. But it's been fascinating to see that I can't subtract that time.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

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

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.