Mandy Patinkin Quotes

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

I think the older you get, the more you realize how important life is, the more you think about your family.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.