Older Quotes

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got 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.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

My idols are all older.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

Older women have always been attracted to 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 have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.