Getting Older Quotations

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

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

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

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

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

Getting older is hard.

I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.

It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

When I started in the business, years ago, people would always say, "You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over." I don't see that with TV. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but the kinds of roles I'm drawn to are more mature roles.

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

You have to embrace getting older

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...But the fact that Helen Mirren can look so good in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women. When I think about [women like her] I instantly stop worrying.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.