Quotes About Aging

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick and you die.

It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.

I have aging as a disease.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

I want Dr to be sort of the next Batman. I want to be 70, 80 years old and want someone else to play Dr Disrespect.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

We would look quite distinctive from what we were like in our 20s. Back then, we put emphasis on our youth, ambition and passion.

All the experts agree Medicare is going to go broke.

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

Everything goes with age. Your eyesight, your energy levels.