As You Get Older Quotes

#1. I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

Johnny Depp

#2. As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.

Mike Love

#3. As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

George Clooney

#4. 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

#5. Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.

Diana Quick

#6. 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

#7. As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

Victoria Legrand

#8. 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Phil Collins

#9. 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

#10. As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

Natalie Dormer

#11. To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

Lulu

#12. As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Betty Buckley

#13. As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

Lela Loren

#14. As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Troy Vincent

#15. Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

John Hurt

#16. 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

#17. I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

James McAvoy

#18. As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

John Travolta

#19. When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.

Rhoda Janzen

#20. Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Jennifer Donnelly

#21. As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

Alan King

#22. Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

George Jones

#23. 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

#24. As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

Logan Lerman

#25. As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Carrie Fisher

#26. 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

#27. I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

Seth

#28. You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Deborah Moggach

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

Clint Eastwood

#30. As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing
less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.

Colin Hay

#31. You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."

LeCrae

#32. As you get older, you do just get tired.

Robyn Davidson

#33. 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

#34. And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Carrie Fisher

#35. As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

Julianna Margulies

#36. 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

#37. There should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun.

Randy Pausch

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

Meryl Streep

#39. What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

Ricky Williams

#40. As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Jerry West

#41. When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#42. Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.

John Connolly

#43. I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

Jerry Hall

#44. 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

#45. No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Danica Patrick

#46. As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

Brian O'Driscoll

#47. As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

Bill Nighy

#48. Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself

Scott Goldblatt

#49. I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Jennifer Donnelly

#50. I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Hanya Yanagihara

#51. 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

#52. As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

Chaka Khan

#53. The quality of your life should get better as you get older and not worse. If not ... start reevaluating your life.

Timothy Pina

#54. It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.

Cameron Diaz

#55. You know, as you get older... your body ages." -- Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo

#56. When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

Jerry Hall

#57. Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

Michael Schumacher

#58. 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

#59. You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

David Ortiz

#60. I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

Mick Ralphs

#61. As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

Carine Roitfeld

#62. I'm almost 46. You become no longer even regarded in a sexual way. As you get older you're just taken out of that realm. So it's not anything that particularly confronts me very much at all.

Janeane Garofalo

#63. You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

David Crosby

#64. As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Wayne Coyne

#65. 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

#66. I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#67. The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

Idina Menzel

#68. As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Michael Winner

#69. Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

Rashida Jones

#70. I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Phil Keoghan

#71. 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

#72. I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

Amy Smart

#73. Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

John Cusack

#74. My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Lenny Kravitz

#75. When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#76. As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

Annie Leibovitz

#77. You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

Charles Barkley

#78. I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

Mike Ditka

#79. Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

Twiggy

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Michael Angarano

#83. 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

#84. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Theo Rossi

#85. 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

#86. As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

Michael Bolton

#87. I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

Aaron Rodgers

#88. 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

#89. I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

Nolan Bushnell

#90. Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

Gary Oldman

#91. 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

#92. It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

Julie Walters

#93. As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Robert Caro

#94. 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

#95. As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

Malcolm Forbes

#96. I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

George Clooney

#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 never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

David Bowie

#99. You'll understand as you get older. You can spot them a mile off, You'll learn to cross the street.' [...] 'Perhaps that's why they don't mix,' said Tilly, 'because everyone else is on the other side of the street?

Joanna Cannon

#100. I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Lauren Oliver