Old Guys Quotes

• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Years, Play, Guy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Guy, Important, Sideways

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Ruth Ann Penzey, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Guy, Theatre

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• I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

  Kumar Pallana

  Hustle And Bustle, Long, People

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Men, Phones

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• I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

  Steve Burns

  Kids, Ideas, Who I Am

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• I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Guy, Tough

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• Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.

  Kerrelyn Sparks

  Believe, Home, Nursing

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I was a door-to-door window salesmen in what feels like a cheap, creepy pedophile situation. And I can say that because we were a bunch of kids driving around in the back of some old guy's van and it was creepy. Now that I look back on it I get chills of creepiness.

  Joseph Bruce

  Kids, Doors, Guy

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Guy, Needs

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• I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

  Richard Gere

  Years, Guy, Shapes

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• At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Years, Guy

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

  Dominic Chianese

  Character, Mean, Guy

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• I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

  Walter Mischel

  Fall, Exercise, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Cutting, Guy, Training

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• All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Baseball, Children, Responsibility

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• I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Years, Guy, Cash

  "F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone on his billion-dollar brand". Interview with Atifa Silk, www.campaignlive.com. November 14, 2014.

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• My dad once told me that he would rather I had an old boyfriend than a tall boyfriend. I don't know why, I think he's just feels stressed by... He' not that short I just think the idea of a really tall guy is super anxiety producing to him. And now I'm with neither old guy nor a very tall guy. So everything has worked out perfectly.

  Lena Dunham

  Dad, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something.... Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody.... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one... well, the fourth one was just plain weird.

  Rachel Caine

  Phones, Texas, Cells

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• I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

  Chuck Eddy

  Yelling, Guy, Fans

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.325, Duke University Press

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• I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.

  Dee Wallace

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

  Lee Child

  Guy, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

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• The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I’m not really in touch.

  Jared Leto

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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