Quotes About Relevance

The people love to see happy young people and I think the older generation are a bit boring for most people.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.

Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

You know, one minute you're in fashion and then you're completely out of fashion, but if you hang around long enough and don't get desperate, suddenly you become 'classic.' You see that happening all the time.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

I'm like an open book. Whatever is going on with my life, I'm going to let the people know. I feel like that's how you always stay in-tune with your fans, letting them know everything that you've got going on.

I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

No one cares about distant relatives nowadays. They went out of fashion years ago.

There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...