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"When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public."
"Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received."
"Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving.""
"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."
"The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age."
"Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still."
"As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom."
"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
"When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices."
"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age."
"I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?"
"No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare ."
"If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!"
"I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform them. And then somehow I got started on it. I love doing it, but I have to ration myself very severely or I wouldn't get anything else done."
"I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens."
"Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit."
"In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also."
"Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?"
"How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else."
"I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I’m 51 going on 52, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance."
