Getting Older Quotes

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 great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

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 remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

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

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

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

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.

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

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

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

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

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

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

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, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

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.

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need to hold on to myself or who I was when I was 25.

I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me.

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.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older.

People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.

One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

The worst thing about getting older is you discover that most of the performers in the shows you used to watch are now younger than you. Suddenly, everything become less believable.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

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.