Quotes About Longevity

I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.

My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.

I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That's the goal I'm shooting for. When they revive 'Driving Miss Daisy' for the seven-hundredth time.

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

The only friend I have had for the longest time is Rocky S., the designer. He has been in my life for 20 years now.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

We will 'de-age' progressively, as cures are developed.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.