Top 100 At My Age Quotes
#1. At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot of courage to separate. But it takes more energy to stay in something that is not working.
Isabel Allende
#2. At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl S. Buck
#4. At my age a man discovers regret, Senhor Mouse. I pursued blood instead of beauty. My memories are all of killing. I've forgotten the rest. Sometimes I cannot sleep.
John Speed
#5. At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
Joe DiMaggio
#6. I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.
Martina Hingis
#7. I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne
#8. I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns
#9. To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
Ellen Page
#10. Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
Clive James
#11. And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.
Nicholas Evans
#12. You are young, so you may not understand what it feels like to be offered a second chance at my age, especially after so ... so difficult a time, when one has seen his own death and accepted it.
G. Willow Wilson
#13. Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#14. I used to be more refined but at my age, you start to realize all that politeness doesn't get you very far. Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people along the way.
Christopher Golden
#15. Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.'
He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.
Simone Elkeles
#16. As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
E. J. Hughes
#17. At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.
Peter Hook
#18. He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.
Margaret Atwood
#20. At my age, I feel like I'm halfway to the finish line and life's too short to do what I'm sure to hate.
Jen Lancaster
#21. I don't think at my age ... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth Clarke
#22. At my age, I don't need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.
Karl Lagerfeld
#23. Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
Rohinton Mistry
#24. At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.
Gretchen Carlson
#25. At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
Hermann Maier
#26. Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now.
Linda Howard
#27. After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Franco Harris
#29. It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
Jane Fonda
#30. At my age ... I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.
Florynce Kennedy
#31. Odd how the wrong stories pop into one's head at my age.
David Mitchell
#32. I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#33. To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all.
Alice Walsh
#34. I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
W.C. Fields
#35. You're a nice girl, Livia. Love is sacred. Hold onto it. I know a lot at my age. Everything else fails you - money, possessions, sex. But love never fails.
Debra Anastasia
#36. I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.
Roger Daltrey
#37. That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.
Freddie Hubbard
#38. Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
Christopher Walken
#40. At my age, I should not be afraid of anything - certainly not my own past.
Kristin Hannah
#41. At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.
Anthony Hopkins
#42. At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
Robert Jordan
#43. When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.
Rodney Dangerfield
#44. Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
Anne Graham Lotz
#45. That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
Adrian Gonzalez
#46. How I preened at that, shamefully so in memory for, while I would have been put off by you calling me "hot" or a "babe" at my age, still having "it" - the illusive "it" factor that transcended looks or age was plausible.
From Prey. Middle-Aged Boys&Girls
Diane Bracuk
#47. I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.
John Stamos
#48. One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.
David O. Russell
#49. I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.
Tricia Helfer
#51. I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.
Liz Phair
#52. It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.
Jeanne Cooper
#53. I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
George Burns
#54. I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#55. It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.
Kenny Rogers
#56. I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.
Brian Andreas
#57. I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.
Maggie Smith
#58. At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
James Levine
#59. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
Sophie Calle
#60. Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.
Louis Zamperini
#61. ...do you like to write?"
"No. No writer really likes to write. I like to make love and drink wine. At my age I shouldn't lose time with anything else, but I can't stop writing. It's a disease.
Rubem Fonseca
#62. People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends ... '
.. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board
Betty White
#64. But that's it. When I think of you, I think of future stuff. I think of this is it and I'm not supposed to think this is it at my age. I don't look at you and think nice. I look at you and think, oh my God, I want to hold her and never let her go. I think, sex - right here, right now -
Melina Marchetta
#65. A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
Annie Lennox
#66. At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
Bob Dole
#67. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper
#68. I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
W.C. Fields
#69. I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns
#70. Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.
Martin Amis
#72. At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
Bryan Cranston
#73. There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.
George Takei
#74. I'm a dedicated father - a hopeless, dedicated father. I mean, I am dork dad. I am just - I love my children. I have kids - you know, Joey's 30-something, and then I have all the way down to 4 years old, believe it or not. At my age, five kids.
Joe Piscopo
#75. I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Jack Nicholson
#76. I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!
Betty White
#77. And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
Lev Grossman
#79. I didn't think it was possible at my age honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy
Halle Berry
#80. I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
Charlie Sheen
#81. At my age, what's the use of thinking about my talents? Effort is what's necessary. (Kang 1989: 117)
Kang Sok-Kyong
#82. At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
Robert McNamara
#83. At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter
#84. It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
Helen Garner
#85. At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.
Amin Maalouf
#87. Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns
#88. You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?"
"I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.
Howard Fast
#89. At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
Robert Breault
#90. One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
Anita Loos
#91. At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.
Miroslav Penkov
#92. Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
Dick Van Dyke
#93. When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.
Billy Porter
#94. At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
Merle Haggard
#95. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!
Joan Rivers
#96. Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
Dodie Smith
#97. At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm "passing the torch." I explain that I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much - and I'm using it to light the torches of others.
Gloria Steinem
#98. At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
Shirley Jackson
#99. I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
Roddy Doyle
#100. This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
Sharon Stone
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