Getting Old Quotes - Page 17

• Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

  Harrison Ford

  Fighting, Men, Years

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• We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Getting Older, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  David Hare

  Getting Older, Vitality, Walks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Character, Cat, White

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• I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

  Josh Turner

  Moving, Stuff, Heard

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• There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

  Mark Hunt

  Stress, Mma, Getting Older

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• When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Grandmother, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

  Brian Chesky

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

  George Clooney

  Getting Older, Concerned

  "The Men Who Stare At Goats - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

  Orson Scott Card

  Growing Up, Writing, House

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• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Dying

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• I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Running, Thinking, Healthy Habits

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• Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

  Guy Oseary

  Country, Hard Times, Giving

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• 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.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Getting Older

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

  Albert Brooks

  Fun, Glasses, Hands

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2011

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

  Evangeline Lilly

  Believe, Getting Older

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• 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.

  Adam Sandler

  Thinking, Getting Older, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

  Raekwon

  Philosophy, Thinking, Rapper

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• Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Frustrated, Getting Older

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sweet, Children, Book

  Introduction to "The Lost Princess of Oz", 1917.

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• This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Support, Getting Older

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• I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Religion, Church

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• I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

  Demi Lovato

  Growing Up, Scare, Getting Older

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview with The Associated Press, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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