Quotes About Aging

When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort of an old lady with a camera.

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

I don't want to be an old man some day and look it up and see some episode of one of the shows I did and go, 'ugh,' and be disappointed in myself.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.