Quotes About Age

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.