Old Quotes

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

A man is as old as his arteries.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.