Older Quotes

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

My idols are all older.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.