You're Never Too Old To Play Quotes

#1. You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. It is not easy to dress well.

Jil Sander

#3. I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Karl Urban

#4. Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

#5. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.

Laura Kreitzer

#6. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#7. I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Billie Holiday

#8. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#9. I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

Scott Bakula

#10. It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Agnes Varda

#11. I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#12. In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

#13. I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

John Corbett

#14. Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

Will Rogers

#15. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Robert Hughes

#16. We weren't meant to be somebody
we were meant to know Somebody

John Piper

#17. When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#18. I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

John Fogerty

#19. The young character, which cannot hold fast to righteousness, must be rescued from the mob;

Seneca.

#20. I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Walter Brennan

#21. I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

Catherine The Great

#22. 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

#23. You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

Pablo Picasso

#24. Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

Ken Dodd

#25. Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.

Robert A Berezin

#26. The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. You are never too old to play chess!

Bobby Fischer

#28. My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

Kelly Cutrone