Peter Morgan Quotes

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.

As you get older, you're humbled by the fact that you're a moron.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

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.

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

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

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.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

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.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Every experience makes you a man.