Aging quotes

“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”
Basil Rathbone

“Just because we're older doesn't mean we're old. This is the '90s.”
Diane Keaton - Nina Banks

“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”
Maurice Chevalier

“- Ben Randall: When the heck did we get old?
- Maggie McGlone: I've always been old. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days.”
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall
Bonnie Bramlett - Maggie McGlone

“- Barbara Gordon: Batman's been on the job for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time.
- Bruce Wayne: He has aged phenomenally.”
Rosario Dawson - Barbara Gordon
Will Arnett - Bruce Wayne

“- Clemmie: Are we terribly old?
- Winston Churchill: Yes, I'm afraid you are.
- Clemmie: Oh, you beast!”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Clemmie
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“- Christina: You know when I was 22, my breasts were up here, nice and perky, but gravity has taken them. It's like 22, 28, 22, 28, 22...
- Courtney: Buy some new ones!”

Cameron Diaz - Christina Walters
Christina Applegate - Courtney Rockcliffe

“- Marion: There's chances gone by you can't have back again.
- Hope: Like what?
- Marion: I don't know. Maybe it would be nice to have a child.
- Hope: You really think that?
- Marion: I do. I never said it before, but I do.”

Gena Rowlands - Marion
Mia Farrow - Hope

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
Lillian Gish On Lionel Barrymore

“This business has a lot to do with sex and sex appeal. People tend to think of sexuality as the main ingredient you people have to offer. I beg to differ. I think older people exude bundles of sexuality. It's just that older men and women tend not to run around like cats and dogs in heat.”
Jacqueline Bisset

“Sexpots age fast in Hollywood.”
Sharon Stone

“The last thing to age on somebody is their heart.”
Geraldine Hughes - Marie

“- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!”

Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape

“- Tootles: I've forgotten how to fly.
- Inspector Good: Yes, well... one does.”
Arthur Malet - Tootles
Phil Collins - Inspector Good

“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”
Harry Connick Jr. - Daniel

“The older you get, the more you've done.”
Debra Winger

“You have to learn to walk. You have to learn to talk. You have to wear that totally ridiculous hat your grandma bought you. And when you get a little older, even though you get to choose your hats, you don't get to choose what they put in those meatballs in the cafeteria, or when to fall in love. Sometimes things happens and you just have to deal.”
Mandy Moore - Halley Martin

“It's all so horrible you know, the nightmare of childhood. And it only gets worse. One day you'll wake up, and you'll be past it. Your beautiful skin will wrinkle and shrivel up, you'll lose your hair, your sight, your memory. Your blood will thicken, teeth turn yellow and loose. You will start to stink and fart and all your friends will be dead.”
Lindsay Duncan - Dolphin Blue

“- Mason 'The Line' Dixon: You one crazy old man.
- Rocky Balboa: You'll get there.”
Antonio Tarver - Mason 'The Line' Dixon
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.”
Victoria Principal

“I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.”
Natalie Imbruglia

“Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!”
Norma Shearer

“I've seen people get old, retire, and die. Rarely on the same day.”
Vin Diesel - Kaulder

“- 'Teensy' Melissa Whitman: I can't tell if that's a scar or a wrinkle.
- Caro Eliza Bennett: Yeah, that's a wrinkle pal. There's some scars behind your ears though.
- 'Teensy' Melissa Whitman: Shut up.”
Fionnula Flanagan - Teensy' Melissa Whitman
Maggie Smith - Caro Eliza Bennett

“I must accept my age, and grow my olives and tomatoes.”
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello