Quotes About Aging

My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!

I've aged, but grown up? No.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn't guaranteed.

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

When we look at 105-year-old people around the world, they carry the diverse gut microbiome of 30-year-old people.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

The older I've gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.

I was a gymnast when I was younger but sadly didn't really keep it up with age.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

Playing mother to grown-up kids does not allure me much. I will not feel comfortable. Also, my fans will not like me with grey hair.

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

They drank a cheap Hungarian riesling that spelled "headache" after the third glass. They held hands. The lights were going out at the Garibaldi nursing home across the street, a five-story residence built in the sixties to prove how closely a building could resemble Formica.

He worried that when he would speak of the past, he would sound and look old, as all ancient storytelling men did.