Hesketh Pearson Quotes

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.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

I softened in my old age.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

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

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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 wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

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.