Quotes About Aging

Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

I might be old and ugly now, but you started that way, Jack.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.