Daily Inspiration Quote by Martin Scorsese

Aging, for Scorsese, isn’t a glide into wisdom; it’s a long, stubborn negotiation with the same guy he’s always been. “I’m going to be 60” lands like a timestamp, not a milestone. Sixty isn’t framed as triumph or decline, just the blunt fact of time catching up to a mind that’s been running hot since the streets-and-Catholic-guilt furnace of his youth. The sting is in the second clause: “I’m almost used to myself.” Almost. Not “I know myself,” not “I’ve accepted myself,” but a wry admission that selfhood is something you acclimate to the way you acclimate to noise: gradually, imperfectly, never fully.

The intent reads as anti-mythmaking. Scorsese, a director routinely treated like an institution, punctures the heroic narrative that great artists “arrive” at a stable identity. He’s telling you the opposite: the self remains volatile, a familiar stranger. That’s classic Scorsese subtext, too - the ceaseless interior churn beneath the composed exterior, the sense that the real drama is psychological, not ceremonial. The line’s quiet comedy is defensive and honest: if you can’t fully domesticate your own impulses, at least you can joke about the lag.

Context matters: coming from a filmmaker whose work obsesses over compulsion, guilt, masculinity, and redemption, “almost used” feels like an artist admitting the engine is still idling, still dangerous. The body ages; the appetites, anxieties, and fixations don’t politely retire.