Quotes About Aging

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I've got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there's nothing I can do about it.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

I don't want to be one of those old people getting up at 5 A.M. to potter.

'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.

My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cream, but whenever I gain three or four pounds, that sets off a red alarm.

I don't know about everyone else, but I felt like the day I turned 40, I could no longer read the dinner menu without glasses, my knees started to betray me, and I can gain 10 pounds just by driving past a McDonalds!

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

I don't want to look old in my advanced years so I go on a power walk for half an hour every day, and it helps to keep the pounds off.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

The idea behind makeup is to enhance whatever color or contours you have in your face. I'm a big believer in that. And don't use to much powder; powder is really aging. I've made that mistake myself.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

I stay at home a lot by choice but go out a lot due to work. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.