Time, Aging & Legacy: Aging Quotes

"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Thank God, we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now, when it happens, I find myself registering the fact almost warmly"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I can feel the 60s looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen"

James Stephens, Poet

"I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock"

David Bailey, Photographer

"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"I had to think whether after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"I don't like the term mid-life crisis"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind"

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Athlete

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me"

George Wald, Scientist

"More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done"

Richard J. Needham, Cartoonist

"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled"

Henry Adams, Historian

"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"

Ozzy Osbourne, Musician

"There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God, as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people"

John Sununu, Politician

"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, Director

"I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance"

Ron Chernow, Author

"It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am, and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"I'm not sad at all about turning 40"

Halle Berry, Actress

"I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled"

Ron Chernow, Author

"I'm not into wrinkles"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had"

Carly Simon, Musician

"It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me"

Joel Coen, Director

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