Quotes About Age

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

At 21, I'm too young to be considered just a defensive outfielder.

Usually everyone fast is young. But I don't let age define my ability and drive to be the best I can.

What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I can say that when you model,when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that.

I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.

The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren't. Nobody thinks, 'Now I'm going to write a film about an older person.'

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

I think peas are really nasty. I liked them when I was younger, but I guess when you get older you have different taste buds.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.

My first tattoo was when I was 14. I was a bit young, like. I was a big lad so they didn't question my age at the time.

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.