Age and Experience Quotes

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career, in my 50s.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.

I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.