As I’m getting older, I’m enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I’ve deserved them.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
Growing up, getting older, your age – you get to the point where you’re comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
As I’m getting older, I’m really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.
The thing that’s changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn’t done, but in the past, you can’t have it back.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
I grew up dancing, I grew up competing in dance, being on television, and I pursued dance for my own self-reflection and fulfillment, and now as I’m getting older, I see that everybody seeks a greater purpose.
Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she’s not a beautiful woman and she’s getting older. But you’re saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she’s talking about.
My friends have to remind me that it’s OK to own the fact that you’re good at something. I think it’ll just come with getting older.
I don’t know if it’s just me getting older or if it’s a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there’s a lot more time being spent at home than out.
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.
When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it’s getting easier, but being a mother – it’s a difficult thing to juggle.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we’re singing about mortality, getting older. It’s an interesting time.
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.
I have to say I don’t mind getting older.
Once you’ve been somebody, really, you have a career and you’re a nobody anymore, and you’re getting older, you’re living what’s called a state of shame.
Before you know it, I’m not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We’re all getting older, so I’m trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that’s being thrown at me.
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I’m walking past a glass building, but it’s in my mind about getting older and finding out what I’m going to look like as it unfolds – or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
Getting older is hard.
Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.
I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.
That’s one of the things about getting older isn’t it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
As I started getting older, I realized, ‘I’m so happy!’ I didn’t expect this! I wasn’t happy when I was young.
Getting older doesn’t bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it’s time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they’re worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, ‘What if my girls don’t wear hats?’ But at 13 months old, they could say ‘hat.’
Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it’s something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I’ve been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can’t even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.
Everything is nerve-wracking at first. Maybe it’s getting older! I don’t think I used to be so nervous.
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.
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
It’s interesting when you’re in your thirties and you’re not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people’s anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn’t, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I’ve come to accept my shape – and embrace it.
I’m getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.
I even love getting older, and knowing maybe I can’t do one thing as well, but then trying to figure out how to do something else. That inner drive, I have it every day.
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences – beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.
I’m getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
As a woman getting older people start to feel insecure about the way they look.
I’m getting older and mellower in my old age.
I’m getting older and I’m just coming to terms that I’m stuck with me so I better try to like myself.
For me, getting older doesn’t mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, it’s about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesn’t suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
I think that’s a weak excuse, to say because a rapper’s getting older that he ain’t got it no more. Nah. Don’t go by that philosophy. Let’s just recognize that talent is within.
You can’t stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
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