Quotes About Aging

To retire is the beginning of death.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.