Aging quotes

“Don't get old. Old is ugly, ugly is death.”

Ann Magnuson - Monique Steinbacher

“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”
Jason Isaacs - Captain Hook

“By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama.”
Billy Crystal - Mitch Robbins

“As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.”
Carrie Fisher

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”
Brigitte Bardot

“Drink that potion, and you'll never grow even one day older. Don't drink it, and continue to watch yourself rot.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman

“I'm getting too old for this nonsense.”
Marlon Brando - Carmine Sabatini

“I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life. Getting old ain't bad. Getting old, that's earned.”

Bonnie Bramlett - Maggie McGlone

“Nice people don't live life. I don't wanna go through all my days being all sweet and polite and then realize, when I'm 80, that I'm just some nice dead person.”
James Marsden - Derrick Webb

“- Lord Caversham: You are 36.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Shh! Father! I only admit to 32.”
John Wood - Lord Caversham
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel... thin. Sort of stretched, like... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I mean not to.”
Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo

“- Det. Billy Rosewood: Wow. You know, it says here that by the time the average American is fifty, he's got five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.
- Sgt. Taggart: Why are you telling me this? What makes you think I have any interest in that at all?
- Det. Billy Rosewood: Well, you eat a lot of red meat.”
Judge Reinhold - Det. Billy Rosewood
John Ashton - Sgt. Taggart

“Age will flatten a man.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ed Tom Bell

“Faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.”
Janeane Garofalo - Liz

“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”
George Burns

“- Peter Pan: We have fun, don't we? I taught you to fly and to fight. What more could there be?
- Wendy Darling: There is so much more.
- Peter Pan: What? What else is there?
- Wendy Darling: I don't know. I guess it becomes clearer when you grow up.”
Jeremy Sumpter - Peter Pan
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Wendy Darling

“I wish somebody'd shoot me when I get old.”
Charles Bickford - Slim

“At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed it fell silent for all of them. Though I've grown old the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”
Tom Hanks - Hero Boy

“Age can wither me, Noodles. We're both getting old. All that we have left now are our memories.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Deborah

“- Jeremy: Do you ever think about suicide?
- Masseuse: No!
- Jeremy: I'm going to commit suicide. When I'm thirty.
- Masseuse: Why?
- Jeremy: I don't want to get old, do you?”
Greg Cruttwell - Jeremy
Carolina Giammetta - Masseuse

- Callie: Why would you want to leave all that fame, Mr. Presley? All that money?
- Elvis Presley: I don't know. 'Cause they got old. The woman I loved, Priscilla, she was gone. The rest of the women... were just women. I mean, the music wasn't even mine anymore. Hell, I wasn't even me anymore, just this thing they made up. And my "friends"...... (continue)(continue reading)
Heidi Marnhout - Callie
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

“You want life to mean something, and be real and stuff. But then you just get old... and get a job.”
John Doe - Joe Mosely

“- Maxwell Smart: Well, you were no help at all.
- Agent 99: How could I help? I'm just a woman with a dusty old uterus.
- Maxwell Smart: I never said dusty.”
Steve Carrell - Maxwell Smart
Anne Hathaway - Agent 99

“The older you get, the fewer things you really love, and by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things.”
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box.”
Maurice Bénichou - Dominique Bretodeau