Old Quotes

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.