Getting Older Quotes - Page 6

• There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "I've always been the outsider" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2008.

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

  Maria Bello

  Play, Age, Not Afraid

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• When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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

  Dawn French

  Worry, Getting Old

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• I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

  Ray Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• 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.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Skins, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Kevin Nealon

  Fall, Causes, Tonight

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

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Tomorrow, Should

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• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Akon

  Thinking, Want, Controversial

  "Akon Says His Age is a 'Mystery'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2009.

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• I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

  Randy Alcorn

  Bigger, Humans, Getting Old

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

  Rob Brown

  Feelings, Trying, Different

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• I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Want, Enjoy, Pauses

  "The Features of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

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• It just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that's coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, "Did what came out of Hollywood when I was a kid make more sense, or was it just that I was in the demographic then?" But I certainly feel increasingly confused and disconnected from it.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Confused, Kids, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

  Betty Dodson

  Birthday, Exercise, Vegetables

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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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• At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

  H. H. Asquith

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

  Pauline Kael

  Way, Vulnerable, Learning More

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, Unhappy, Should

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• It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

  Jill Davis

  Life, Real, Mean

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Age

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• You have to embrace getting older.

  Meryl Streep

  Embrace, Getting Old

  "Interview: Meryl Streep Up Close". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 8, 2008.

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