Quotes About Perspective

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I have gained no wisdom at all in my old age, but that's the only message I have. It's down to you, ultimately. It really is.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

I have positive feelings about the old days and the way you did things, but that's sort of like feeling nostalgic for the heyday of the Detroit auto industry. Just because it was done doesn't mean it couldn't be improved upon.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort of an old lady with a camera.

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

I have a nap every afternoon like a little boy. Or an old man. Depending on how you look at it.

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.

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.

One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.

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.