Quotes About Youth

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore.

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.

Old men are children for the second time.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

I think Facebook is more for old people and, like, adults. My parents use Facebook. I honestly have never been on Facebook.

I love old school rock and roll.

There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

There's a lot said now about younger players: that it's just about the cars and houses. I'm from the old school - it's about what you've achieved in the game.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

There are no filmy parties for my daughter. I'm a bit old-fashioned in such cases because I don't want my child to lose her innocence at such an early age.

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the landmarks of my childhood are gone. I do kind of feel like a bitter old-timer, like, 'These kids don't know what it was like.'