Jenifer Lewis Quotes

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

It takes a long time to become young.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

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.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.