Old Quotes

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I'm an old cynic.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.