Old Quotes

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.