Quotes About Aging

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

Bob Hope said: 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.' And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

As I ran out of grandparents at the age of 16, the only time I ever see old folk is when I'm over-taking them on a motorway, they're in my audience laughing at filth, or in any park.

When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

I actually think in a funny way, I feel better at TV now. As I get older, I know what I think and I know what works and I enjoy it more.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.