Older Quotes

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

The older you get, the more you learn.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

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.