Older Quotes

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.