Jude Law Quotes

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

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.

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

When you're younger you've got all these hang-ups, but when you get to your 50s you just have a good time.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

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

I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.