Quotes About Aging

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.

In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can't even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.