Top 100 As You Get Older Quotes
#1. As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.
Rod Stewart
#2. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.
Jennifer Lopez
#3. You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.
Alice Munro
#4. Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Charlaine Harris
#5. As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.
Five For Fighting
#6. I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.
David Shrigley
#7. As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.
Sadguru
#8. And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.
Meg Cabot
#9. As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.
Ivana Trump
#10. Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Martin Amis
#11. But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
Bruce McCulloch
#12. Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older ... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
Sally Phillips
#13. If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
Ani DiFranco
#14. Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
David Eddings
#15. As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.
Harry S. Truman
#16. When I didn't have a family, I was much more of a workaholic ... I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it's not fun, what's the point?
Ben Stiller
#17. As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
Tracey Ullman
#18. But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.
Joseph Bologna
#19. I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
Ike Barinholtz
#20. Things can make sense at the time, but as you get older those consolations no longer help you sleep. It's the only thing I've learned. We all think we know the answer, and we're all wrong. Shit, I'm not sure we even know what the question is.
Mark Mills
#21. Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#22. Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.
Michael B. Jordan
#23. As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.
Frederick Lenz
#24. It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
Stefan Petrucha
#25. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
#26. Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
#27. As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
Warwick Davis
#28. I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.
Stephen Merchant
#29. When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.
Marc Maron
#30. You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
David Beckham
#31. At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.
Robin Roberts
#32. You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
Taylor Momsen
#33. You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.
Martin Amis
#34. As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
Christian Slater
#35. I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.
Andie MacDowell
#36. I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.
Margaret Cho
#37. As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
Patton Oswalt
#38. Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
Douglas Coupland
#39. As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
Paul Scofield
#40. Start young. Throw your arms around ladies' knees. As you get older it will get more interesting.
Shepherd Mead
#41. When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.
Alex Trebek
#42. As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.
Cheryl Ladd
#43. What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day ... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
Naomi Campbell
#45. You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.
Nikki Sixx
#46. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.
Reese Witherspoon
#47. As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
Len Goodman
#48. As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.
Lea Thompson
#49. I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait
Hugh Laurie
#50. 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
#51. As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.
Troy Vincent
#52. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
Bill Gates
#53. When you're young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other.
Elan Mastai
#54. As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.
Logan Lerman
#55. As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
John McEnroe
#56. One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
Cassandra Clare
#57. Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
Art Farmer
#58. I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.
Robert Hilburn
#59. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
Eddie Murphy
#60. When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Wayne Rooney
#62. On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.
Martin Scorsese
#63. You know, as you get older... your body ages." -- Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo
#64. As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.
Phil Keoghan
#65. 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
#66. I think as you get older and things don't work as much as they used to, you've got to have a tendency to do what's right for your body.
Andre Reed
#67. I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#68. Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.
Rashida Jones
#69. Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.
Tracey Emin
#70. It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.
Janeane Garofalo
#71. I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
Gary Hume
#72. Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
Emma Donoghue
#73. 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
#74. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
Willem Dafoe
#75. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom
#76. At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
Brad Gilbert
#77. As you get older your hair just starts getting a bit darker which makes me sad. So I probably need to surf more.
Laura Enever
#78. I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.
Woody Allen
#79. As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#80. As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.
Duncan Roy
#81. As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.
Simon Fowler
#82. But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'
Felicity Jones
#83. As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.
Heston Blumenthal
#85. 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
#86. I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.
Johnny Depp
#87. As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager
#88. The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
Mark Hoppus
#89. At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?
Anna Kournikova
#90. I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.
Justin Kirk
#91. The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.
Peter Hargreaves
#92. People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
Yoko Ono
#93. I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
Kathy Mattea
#94. You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
Ben Cross
#95. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.
Caroline Blackwood
#96. I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
Garry Hynes
#97. You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.
Jennifer Lawrence
#98. I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
Sam Rockwell
#99. As you get older, the child within you begins to suffocate in the shadow of the man you are destined to become.
Charles Lee
#100. As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.
Joe Sakic
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