Quotes About Aging

She was seeing that her father spent his last years with his own family and not in a decayed boarding house full of old women whose heads jiggled. She was doing her duty. She had brothers and sisters who were not.

You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

This sounds weird, but when you have a male fan base, you pretty much know you are going to be okay until you're an old, crispy dude, because they're not buying your films because you're sexy.

There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt.

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

Father Time catches up with us all.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start to go, 'Yeah, yeah, this is like life, why wouldn't I want to do it?'

I think natural fibers look better over time. The more you wear them, they look even better.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.