Eddie Murphy Quotes

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

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.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

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.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

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

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

I think I've just matured over the years.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

I softened in my old age.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

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.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

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.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.