Sigourney Weaver Quotes

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

I don't want to be 25 again.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

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.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

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

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

My later years are my treasure years.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.