Old Quotes

I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

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.

Don't hustle old people.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I hope I die before I get old.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.