Quotes About Age

I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

Some say a model's tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Ranbir is having a terrific time with all the success and the money he's got, and age being in his favor too. Why does he have to get married and spoil it all so soon?