I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement – and if you’re over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing’s worse than saggy duds.
I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late ’70s – and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend’s backup band.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.
I have managed to get through that tricky turn into your 50s with two great roles. It is great to see characters for women of a certain age.
When you’re a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.
My children didn’t when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
There aren’t a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.
You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don’t do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It’s inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you’ve had.
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
I’m really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I’ve not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don’t look a certain way.
There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it’s ‘Medium’ or ‘The Closer’ or ‘Damages’ or ‘Saving Grace.’
What do we have in life, really? If we’re lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.
In America, people of a certain age ask, ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’ In my house you were more likely to be asked, ‘Where were you when you first read ‘The Catcher In The Rye?’
Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
Hard audiences tend to be when it’s all men. It’s when businesses have dos where they’re at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They’re men of a certain age – basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can’t make these people laugh hysterically.
It’s hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things – like looking up at my kneecaps – they’re just not there anymore.
It’s quite liberating to get to a certain age, ‘cos you’re not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I’ve done all that. I’m not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
I think when you get to a certain age, older people become more emotional than younger people.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it’s only happened three times – usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then – or what else in life interests you?
So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it’s time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don’t think that’s true at all. I think age should not dictate that.
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age… with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?
When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.
When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o’clock.
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.
It’s every woman’s tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we’ve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
I’m really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.
I think saying ‘a John Hughes movie’ is just shorthand for a lot of people to say ‘a coming-of-age story,’ because I think, when you’re of a certain age, that’s what John Hughes means to you.
I will definitely get married, but it is not that it has to happen at a certain age.
You never choose the way that you’re raised, it’s just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you’re in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you’ve been formed by your surroundings.
It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
You almost have to be of a certain age to understand how hard it was to disseminate the truth before the Internet. After the formation of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action in 1975, we did it, and we did it well.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
There’s a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, ‘Don’t do it’, and they go ahead and do it, they’re still not going to die. And I think that’s what it is: that no matter what you do, you’re not going to die.
Twilight is about getting older and relationships – not about a murder mystery. It’s about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I’m also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that’s important.
Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.
You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don’t know when it happens, I said, ‘Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.’
It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn’t an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn’t be Indiana Jones.
