Older Quotes

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.