Quotes About Aging

I don't think there's anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I'm going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don't want to look perpetually young.

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and would demand to be fed again.

I want to live to be a grandfather, or to be doing this when I'm 80.

I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.

I hope to be working and eating dessert at 93 just like my grandma.

I feel like a grandma.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

I would model when they wanted me, and as I got older, they wanted an older model. I was quite willing to be mother of the bride at 28. I was quite happy to be on the cover of a grandparents' magazine at 42; I have no ego about that.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

It's very important to keep yourself fit when you are young. Many people take youth for granted and start taking care of their health only as they get older.

Sometimes I feel very bullish about it - this is the age that I am, this is the way that I look, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm grateful that I've lived this long.

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.