Val Kilmer Quotes

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I think it is nice to get older.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

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.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

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

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

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.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

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.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

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.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.