Getting Older famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
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 -
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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.
-- Alberto Tomba -
I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
-- Alexis Bledel -
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
-- Amy Grant -
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 -
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!
-- Anna Kournikova -
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
-- Betty Friedan -
Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.
-- Billy Cannon -
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
-- Chadwick Boseman -
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
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.
-- Christina Aguilera -
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
-- Crispin Glover -
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.
-- Dave Eggers -
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 -
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
-- Davy Jones -
Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
-- Dawn French -
Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
-- Deborah Smith -
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 -
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.
-- Diane Sawyer -
The minute you're born, you're getting older.
-- Doris Roberts -
If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
-- Eric Idle -
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.
-- Erin Andrews -
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
-- Garth Brooks -
Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.
-- George Clooney -
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.
-- Goldie Hawn -
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
-- Greg Behrendt -
Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
-- Gwen Stefani -
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.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
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.
-- Howie Mandel -
What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.
-- Hugh Hefner -
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
-- Ian Anderson -
I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
-- Ian Mckellen -
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
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.
-- Jeffrey Bernard -
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.
-- Jenny Offill -
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
-- Joan Collins -
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
-- John Byrne -
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.
-- John Mayer -
One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.
-- Josh Lanyon -
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.
-- Joy Behar -
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
-- Julian Clary -
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.
-- Kelly Brook -
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 -
I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
-- Konrad Adenauer -
One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.
-- Lee Marvin -
Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
-- Lena Headey -
I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio -
It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
-- Luke Wilson -
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.
-- Maeve Binchy -
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
-- Maria Bello -
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 -
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.
-- Martin Freeman -
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
-- Melissa Etheridge -
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.
-- Meryl Streep -
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
-- Michael Caine -
I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer -
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.
-- Mike Love -
The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
-- Mike May -
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
-- Monica Ali -
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 -
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
-- Nancy Astor -
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.
-- Nick Cave -
One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
-- Nicolas Cage -
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 -
Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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.
-- Patrice Leconte -
I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.
-- Patricia Brooks -
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
-- Pauline Kael -
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
-- Portia de Rossi -
Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
-- Randy Alcorn -
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.
-- Rick Danko -
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 -
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.
-- Sela Ward -
And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.
-- Sonia Braga -
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.
-- Stephen Bayley -
I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.
-- Steve Coogan -
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
-- Sting -
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
-- Tippi Hedren -
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.
-- Twiggy -
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.
-- Twiggy -
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.
-- Will Self -
The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.
-- Woody Allen -
There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.
-- Woody Allen -
I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.
-- Felipe Esparza -
You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.
-- Felipe Esparza -
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.
-- Jacob Braude -
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.
-- Kate Zambreno -
As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.
-- Micah Lexier -
I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.
-- Patrick Wolf -
Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.
-- Paul Achleitner -
Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.
-- Pauline Quirke -
I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.
-- Torquil Campbell -
I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.
-- Ann Dowd
