"The older you get the more capable you get at managing life"
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The line works because it’s deliberately unromantic. “Managing” is a word from budgets, calendars, and crisis control; it suggests the unsexy labor behind any stable-looking adult. Weisz isn’t claiming that life gets easier, just that your grip improves. That distinction matters. It’s an actor’s perspective too: the longer you work, the less you confuse nerves for truth, the more you can separate rejection from identity, the more you understand that a career is mostly logistics punctuated by rare magic. You don’t stop feeling; you stop being ruled by the feeling.
The subtext is also feminist in a low-key, anti-panicked way. Women in the public eye are trained to treat aging as a countdown. Weisz redirects value away from surface youth and toward interior infrastructure: boundaries, self-knowledge, taste, the ability to choose your battles. “More capable” implies accrued agency, not just endurance.
Contextually, it lands as a soft rebuke to the culture’s obsession with peak moments. Her claim is that the “peak” might actually be a steadier thing: learning to live with fewer illusions and better tools.
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| Topic | Aging |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Weisz, Rachel. (2026, January 17). The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-older-you-get-the-more-capable-you-get-at-71027/
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Weisz, Rachel. "The older you get the more capable you get at managing life." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-older-you-get-the-more-capable-you-get-at-71027/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The older you get the more capable you get at managing life." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-older-you-get-the-more-capable-you-get-at-71027/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.






