Constance Zimmer Quotes

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

I've improved as an actor, thanks to my wonderful directors. As a person, I've changed, too; I was 16 when I did 'Thullavatho Ilamai,' and I'm 32 now. With age, I've sobered down. I'm calmer; I can see things more clearly now.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

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

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.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

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.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I want to write about grown-up things.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.