Greg Behrendt Quotes

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

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

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

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

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

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.

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

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

The more you live, the better writer you are.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

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.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

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.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.