Top 100 As I Get Older Quotes
#1. I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
Seamus Dever
#2. I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.
Christopher Walken
#3. As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
Anne-Marie Duff
#4. It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.
Louise Nurding
#5. I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
Brandon Flowers
#6. As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future ... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
Feist
#7. Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
Tom Stoppard
#8. I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.
Robert Motherwell
#9. I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.
Lynsey Addario
#10. As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
Elliot Cowan
#11. As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
Sienna Miller
#12. I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
Darren Aronofsky
#13. As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Steve Maraboli
#14. I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.
Chris Robinson
#15. The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.
Bruce Springsteen
#16. As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.
Robert De Niro
#17. The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.
Steve Largent
#18. As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.
Jeff Gordon
#19. I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.
Marcia Cross
#20. As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.
Sarah Brightman
#21. I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.
Lusia Strus
#22. As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment.
Andrew Neel
#23. As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
David Crystal
#24. I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.
Andie MacDowell
#26. As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
Ron Rash
#27. As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
J. A. Jance
#28. I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.
Miranda Hart
#29. I've really been trying to go back to when I was 18 and rediscover the things that drove me, and my passions. How do I get back to being that strong? Because I feel like as I get older, I'm not as fearless as I was when I was 18.
Sasha Grey
#30. As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Gerald Brenan
#31. As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.
Jessica Lucas
#32. As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching.
Kim Cattrall
#33. I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
Jonathan Winters
#34. As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
Annie Leibovitz
#35. As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
Alice Walker
#36. As I get older, I might need to keep the stubble off. As the years come, it helps to look younger I guess.
Kurt Warner
#37. In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less crazed certainty ... People who know the answer and are going to impose it on everybody else, I think, are terrifying people.
Ian McEwan
#38. I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
Judi Dench
#39. As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.
Seth
#40. As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.
Jonathan Lethem
#41. I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
Dave Matthews
#42. I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
Damien Hirst
#43. I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.
Lissie
#44. Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
Abbie Cornish
#45. I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.
Diana Quick
#46. I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.
Diana Quick
#47. Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
Ani DiFranco
#48. As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
Margaret Deland
#49. I like running and swimming, and exercise four or five times a week, but not for long - about 30 minutes. I just exercise by myself and find that as I get older it becomes easier. In school I remember not enjoying running at all.
Arizona Muse
#50. The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.
Ben Harper
#51. I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
Samantha Power
#52. I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.
Tony Bennett
#53. Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#54. As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
Marisa Berenson
#55. As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.
Laurie Foos
#56. As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.
Larry The Cable Guy
#57. Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
Martin Freeman
#58. At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.
Michael Robotham
#59. I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.
Charlie Cox
#60. My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.
Eli Roth
#61. My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
Lucinda Roy
#62. I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.
Jaime Winstone
#63. As I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Helen Simonson
#64. As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.
Colin Mochrie
#66. As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Clint Eastwood
#67. I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.
Stephen Shore
#68. I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
Thomas Haden Church
#69. I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
Rufus Wainwright
#70. As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
James McAvoy
#71. ... we never know, and never would know, what it would be like to understand another person fully. It seems a simple thought, but as I get older I see more and more that she had to tell us that.
Elizabeth Strout
#72. Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
Tadashi Shoji
#74. I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
Rufus Wainwright
#75. I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.
Judy Gold
#76. I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.
Henry Rollins
#77. I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite ... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite
which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.
Ingrid Newkirk
#78. For me, there's still plenty of ground to be covered, as I get older. It's worked out great so far. I take it one job at a time. I'll just keep my eyes toward the next job and see where it takes me.
Patrick Fabian
#79. As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.
Bobby Lee
#80. You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#81. As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
Kool Keith
#82. As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.
Jason Day
#83. As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!
Brent Spiner
#84. People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
Julie Burchill
#85. The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'
Diane Von Furstenberg
#86. As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.
Mike Trout
#87. As I get older, everything feels like it's fundamentally connected, and once you've accepted the idea that business is right, and the free market - though there's never really been one - is right, then everything else just follows naturally from there.
Herbert
#88. As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
Bryan Greenberg
#89. I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.
Corbin Bernsen
#90. It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
Willem Dafoe
#91. 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.
Christian Bale
#92. It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As I get older, I find a greater sense of self-confidence. I've learned that it's fine to not try to be anything else but myself.
Jessica Biel
#93. I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
Lena Dunham
#94. I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.
Jim Piddock
#95. I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.
Elton John
#96. As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
Julie Burchill
#97. The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
Derek Jeter
#98. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
Oswald Chambers
#99. I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
Steve Martin
#100. As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.
Jennifer Aniston
