Quotes About Age

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Most doctors want to keep their success rates high, so they'd rather deal with someone who is younger, who has healthier eggs and more of them.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

A doctor or lawyer who has reached the top can stay there or move on to higher prestige positions. But an actor of comparable competence and success and age has little or no control over his career.

I've reached an age where I don't want to be on the road all the time.

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my ovaries to 80-year-olds who send me emails. And, of course, women my age everywhere.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.

I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have a drama with a woman at the centre of it.

I accidentally make innuendos all the time without even realising. I'm middle-aged, in that sense.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.