Old You Quotes - Page 2

• One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

  Betty White

  Years, Age, Growing

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Stars, Hollywood, Sometimes

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• For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Husband, People, Blonde

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• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Thinking, Age, Feels

  "Director's Cut: Paolo Sorrentino ('The Great Beauty')". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Hate, Kids

  Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery (2014). “Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, City Lights Books

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• What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

  Jay Mohr

  Athlete

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Parent, Your Boyfriend

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Sick, Mind

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Men, Mvp

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• Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Cat, Years

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• 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

  Attitude, Thinking, Feel Good

  "I'm through with having Botox, says pop diva Lulu". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

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• As you get old, you live and learn.

  Frank Thomas

  Live And Learn, You Live You Learn, You Live And Learn

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• We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Player, Eight

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• People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

  Bette Midler

  People, Age, Different

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• We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.

  Michael Ventura

  Years, Two, Fax Machines

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Yankees, People

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, Validation

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Long, People, Age

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• When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

  Julie Newmar

  Murder, Looking Good, Young

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• Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Eye, Hair

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• When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

  Edward Albee

  Talking, People, Able

  Edward Albee (2004). “The Collected Plays of Edward Albee”, Overlook Press

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• Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

  Bradley Whitford

  Swimming, People, Looks

  "Bradley Whitford on Happyish, The West Wing, and his high heels on Transparent". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 16, 2015.

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• If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

  Randy Newman

  Kids, Years, Worry

  "'I'm Dreaming of a White President': Randy Newman on His New Song". Interview with Ben Yagoda, www.slate.com. September 18, 2012.

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• With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Office, Power Corrupts

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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