Quotes About Aging

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

I find the older I get - carrying this thing called fame - the more I close myself off. That's what you do.

When we grow older, we start getting caught up with ourselves. We try and live up to an image.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

It's hard to get older as an actress. You see a lot of people, especially in L.A., chasing youth.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

When I was 18 in Cold Chisel, I didn't want to make it to 21. Who wants to be that old?

I like to keep my voice going. I don't want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it's easier for you to lose it.

It's hard for anyone to say that they chose to put their parent in a home rather than give up a large part of their own life to care for them, and thinking about the years leading up to my father's death still punishes me.