927 private quotes tagged age

“Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.” — Debra Winger

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“People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.” — Debra Winger

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“In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.” — Rowan Atkinson

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“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.” — Harrison Ford

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“About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.” — Jane Pauley

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“Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.” — Jane Pauley

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“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.” — Victoria Abril

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“I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.” — Jane Pauley

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“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.” — Lawrence Durrell

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“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.” — Craig Ferguson

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“I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.” — Leona Lewis

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“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” — George Sand

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“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.” — Harrison Ford

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“Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.” — Geoffrey Chaucer

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“Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.” — Clive Bell

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“The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.” — Roger Moore

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“I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.” — Bede Griffiths

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“Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.” — Dean Kamen

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“I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.” — John Mellencamp

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“I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.” — Tim McGraw

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“It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.” — Mira Nair

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“I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.” — Jamie Foxx

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“I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.” — George Foreman

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“I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.” — Courteney Cox

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“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.” — Roger Zelazny

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