It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I’m quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
Old Quotes
Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I feel very old sometimes… I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
