Top 100 You Get Older Quotes
#1. As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.
Rose Byrne
#2. Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.
William Joseph Burns
#3. I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
Carine Roitfeld
#4. When I get older losing my hair many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?
John Lennon
#5. 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
#6. My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
George Saunders
#7. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
Sandra Bullock
#8. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.
Christopher Page
#9. The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
Jonathan Pryce
#10. I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
Vicki Lawrence
#11. The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?
Robert Longo
#12. 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
#13. What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time.
John Crowley
#14. To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.
Hugh Laurie
#15. When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances.
Daryl Hannah
#16. As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can do. Cutting out carbs and sweets and trying to eat just proteins and fruits and stuff like that, more natural stuff, is what I have found has had the biggest impact on me.
Jay Cutler
#17. My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.
Hines Ward
#18. 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
#19. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Kirk Douglas
#20. I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
Viggo Mortensen
#21. I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.
Nina Bawden
#22. In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise
Tom Hanks
#23. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
Maud Hart Lovelace
#25. Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Charlaine Harris
#26. 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
#27. The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.
Sara Rue
#28. Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
John Green
#29. I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.
Josh Hartnett
#30. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#31. 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
#32. Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.
Ingmar Bergman
#33. As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.
Frank Thomas
#34. As you get older, you look at things differently.
Brett Favre
#35. If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
Iris Apfel
#36. I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
Sloane Crosley
#37. The older you get, the better you realize you were.
George Carlin
#38. I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Jonathan Ke Quan
#39. More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
Bob Newhart
#40. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#41. Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
Antonio Banderas
#42. Son, how violent is yer woman?" The older man asked sounding curious. Aiden leaned in and whispered. "She knocked me unconscious once with the back of my toilet." The older man's eyes widened. "Better get you some chocolate bars. You can throw those from a distance." Aiden nodded.
Anonymous
#43. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Terraine Francois
#44. Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
Maya Angelou
#45. As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.
Eric Balfour
#46. The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.
Wendy Lustbader
#47. As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
Marianne Williamson
#48. As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.
Sadguru
#49. The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)
Dave Barry
#50. You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.
Rob Harrell
#51. I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.
Katherine Jenkins
#52. - You get more misanthropic every day.
- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.
Richard Russo
#53. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#54. And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.
Meg Cabot
#55. After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
Nick Cave
#56. Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
Alex Trebek
#57. As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
Graydon Carter
#58. It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
Joel Coen
#59. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
Leslie Mann
#60. Marry a woman you love to talk to. As you get older, her conversational skills will be as important as any other. 658
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#61. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
Kathy Bates
#62. Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
John Wagner
#63. 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
#64. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
Elizabeth Hay
#65. The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.
Jameson Currier
#66. As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
David LaChapelle
#67. You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.
Edward Hirsch
#68. If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention ...
David Toop
#69. My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Jacques Pepin
#70. When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
Charlotte Rampling
#71. 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
#72. Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
Andrea Corr
#73. I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.
Rachel Weisz
#74. I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.
William Devane
#75. 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
#76. When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
Vince Vaughn
#79. 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
#80. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#81. Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kim Hubbard
#82. The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.
Jerry Barber
#83. I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
Taylor Swift
#84. I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can't believe it now - it's like one of those ex-husbands that you think, 'What was I thinking?'
Nora Ephron
#85. 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
#86. When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.
Marjorie Gubelmann
#87. What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
Russell Banks
#88. Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Andre Agassi
#90. As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make you feel pretty miserable.
Dirk Nowitzki
#91. The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
Tia Mowry
#92. When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.
Mechai Viravaidya
#93. I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.
Tony Harrison
#94. When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
Grace Slick
#95. As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
Nathan Lane
#96. You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer
#97. Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
A.S. Byatt
#98. Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
Stevie Nicks
#99. Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.
Patrick Stump
#100. It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.
Alan Titchmarsh
