Quotes About Age

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.

I played Rugby League at school but once I got to the age of 14, I had to make a choice and decided to stick with boxing.

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

Women are outfundraised. Why? Because men have been doing it a lot longer. And, so not only do they have entry into the money, they have connections that a lot of women don't. Women are a lot older most of the times when they run for office because of the stigma.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.