Quotes About Aging

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Men in their 40's grow a beard and presto! They've achieved Silver Fox status. Meanwhile, I am sitting in front of a mirror using a mascara wand and eye shadow palette to painstakingly colour in my greying roots, because this 40 year old got a little too comfortable in her skin and didn't go for a touch up in time.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I'll always be playing shows. Even when I'm a crazy granny wearing weird old granny clothes and wandering around with dementia, I'll still be playing. Whether anyone else will turn up is another question.

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.

I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.

I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.

We used to say, 'I don't wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I'm thirty,' you know? Even Mick Jagger said, 'Well, I can't see myself at forty jumping around.' Well, here we are, you know?

I wanna play until I am 45 if my body will let me. After football, I have no idea.

I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense mechanisms to ward off attacks from competing ideas or new data. The system makes us comfortable but resistant to change, no matter how much change might be called for.

'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.