Words matter. These are the best Certain Age Quotes from famous people such as Paul Weller, Ellie Goulding, John Mayer, Waheeda Rehman, Soni Razdan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
After a certain age, when you are married and have kids your priorities change.
You come to a certain age in life and wonder, ‘I am holding back for what?’ Why not just say it?
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that’s part of their appeal. Usually they don’t grow up.
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
Unless you’re of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it – I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was – am – gay.
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
Cuddly toy rabbits were a real comfort for all of my babies – once they got to a certain age they would nuzzle the fur.
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.
Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you.
I have noticed that there are fewer parts for women of a certain age. You hit a certain age, and undoubtedly there’s less opportunity. That’s not all right. Who wants to see only men on our screens?
Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of what I did.
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you ‘sell’ only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.
People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.
I’m in love with low-rated shows. That’s true of ‘Men of a Certain Age,’ ‘Thief,’ ‘Gideon’s Crossing.’ I fall in love with projects that are almost freighted with prestige.
I’m trying to get my kids – in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who’s 12 – to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven’t kept up, but I don’t want to fall behind.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you’ve got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I’ve always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there’s nothing else that you’d rather do.
Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they’re considered crazy people or something.
I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can’t imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I’ve got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.
It’s kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
You reach a certain age, and you realize, ‘Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don’t leave me out – I don’t want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.’
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
I did a show where I played the mother of a 15-year-old, I was 20 years old when I played a mom of 45. And then, when I was around 28-30, I played mother to Akshay Kumar. So I got typecast very early, if I didn’t even have to reach a certain age point.
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.
I think it was Freud who said that we’re all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
You hit a certain age, and you haven’t died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I’m not keeling over.
I think it’s hard, the fact that there’s a certain age that we can’t have kids anymore.
Once you reach a certain age, you realize that men aren’t as important as you once thought they were.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one’s body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
It’s always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you’re just going to fall over or something.
When I was younger, my dad would cook, and I would never really have it, unless it was something like spaghetti. I would only like what my mom made – macaroni and cheese or something like that. But after I reached a certain age, I think it was 11, I realized I liked his cooking.
Once a heroine is beyond a certain age, she has to graduate to mother’s roles or quit.
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren’t interested in the picture book section anymore. It’s filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It’s about youth and youth culture. There’s no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, ‘Wow! Everything must be great!’ Well, everything isn’t always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.
But I’ve always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn’t be played past a certain age.
I hate the idea that you shouldn’t wear something just because you’re a certain age.
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Repealing the Eighth Amendment is about women who don’t want to be pregnant. It’s not about a certain type of woman, a certain age of woman – we all known sisters and mothers who have chosen to go on with a pregnancy and those who haven’t.
I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.
And I can’t tell you how many women from a certain age group – they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s – tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.
You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that you’ve still got it.
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
‘Certainly Men of a Certain Age’ was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.