Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow – no, not yellow, green – and for all I know, I’m still there.
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you’re looking at a very long and lonely old age.
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock – everything.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
I’m finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There’s now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.
From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
It’s so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
One thing I’m not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.
I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive.
I’ve become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
You’re gonna lose looks when it comes with age, but if you have that sense of humor, it will always keep things great in a relationship.
