Age Quotes

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

How young can you die of old age?

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.