Age Quotes

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Old age is a woman's hell.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.