Older Quotes

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.