Old age quotes

“Sometimes I'd feel very old, like my whole life is over, like I'm not around no more.”
Linda Manz - Linda

“- John Gustafson: You're supposed to be smoking filter cigarettes.
- Grandpa Gustafson: I'm 94 years old. What the hell do I care?”
Jack Lemmon - John Gustafson
Burgess Meredith - Grandpa Gustafson

“- Papa Klump: What's wrong with you, woman? Don't you wanna be young?
- Mama Klump: No, Cletus, I don't wanna be young! Cletus, we are supposed to be who we are and I'm just fine with who I am! But obviously what you're trying to say is that you're just tired of the fat old woman that you got married to!”
Eddie Murphy - Papa Klump
Eddie Murphy - Mama Klump

“Older people start aging backwards at some point.”
Mackenzie Astin - Henry Villard

“- Alvin Straight: You don't think about getting old when you're young... you shouldn't.
- Steve: There must be something good about gettin' old.
- Alvin Straight: Well, I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time but, still at my age, I've seen about all that life has to dish out. I know to separate the wheat from...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin
Matt Guidry - Steve

“- Col. W.H. 'Bill' Grice: Will you take a look at the engine in this thing?
- Col. Lewis Pugh: No, but I have a general idea.
- Col. W.H. 'Bill' Grice: It belongs in a museum.
- Col. Lewis Pugh: So do some of us. Well, cheer up.”
David Niven - Colonel W. H. Grice
Gregory Peck - Colonel Lewis Pugh

“- Lester Marlow: Marylou likes excitement. She says I'm not exciting any more.
- Duane: Well, it's hard to stay exciting for a whole lifetime.”
Randy Quaid - Lester Marlow
Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson

“Hell, at my age, you learn a new name you gotta forget an old one.”
Gordon Tootoosis - Wesley Birdsong

“- Scott Calvin: Hey, kid, kid... who's in charge here?
- Elf-Larry: You are, and I'm not a kid, I have pointy shoes that are older than you... I'm an elf.”
Tim Allen - Scott Calvin
Joshua Satok - Elf-Larry

“If I knew I was going to live to 86 I wouldn't have let the maid go.”
Katharine Hepburn - Ginny

“- Ron White: Hi, I'm Ron White. Your sister sent you a cake. You're not gonna belive this, but a little old lady just robbed me!
- Samantha: Could you run that by me again?
- Ron White: A little old lady armed with a big gun held me up!”
Caitlyn Jenner - Ron White
Valerie Perrine - Samantha

“How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Herr Knopp, Gestapo

“Old people never take things as one expects.”
Clive Swift - Major Callendar

“Your little body's slowly breaking down. You're losing speed, you're losing strength, not style. That goes on flourishing forever, but your eyes, your smile do not have the sparkle of your fantastic past. If you climb one more mountain, it could be your last.”

Jonathan Pryce - Juan Perón

“- George: Mr. Murtaugh has a gun.
- Martin Riggs: Yeah, but it's an old gun and he's not a very good shot.”
Allan Dean Moore - George
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

- "Sleepy" Bill Burns: Eddie's gettin' too old for this. I know what it's like. You walk out there with your arm hangin.
- Billy Maharg: You couldn't pitch when you was young, Burnsie.
- "Sleepy" Bill Burns: Eddie's the key. If we don't get him, we can forget about it.

Chris Lloyd - "Sleepy" Bill Burns
Richard Edson - Billy Maharg

“I've gotten so far away that leaving is just a formality, Malcolm.”
Mariel Hemingway - Christine Connelly

“- George Bowman: You're going to be a grandma?
- Helen: No, no, no, no. I'm too young to be a grandmother. Grandmothers are old. They bake, and they sew, and they tell you stories about the Depression. I was at Woodstock, for Christ's sake! I peed in a field! I hung on to The Who's helicopter as it flew away!”
Paul Linke - George Bowman
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“- Mrs. Wilkinson: This'll sound strange, Billy, but for some time now I've been thinkin' of the Royal Ballet School.
- Billy: Aren't you a bit old, miss?
- Mrs. Wilkinson: No, not me... you! I'm the bloody teacher!”
Julie Walters - Mrs Wilkinson
Jamie Bell - Billy

“- Felix Ungar: You got a lawyer?
- Oscar Madison: Yeah, in Florida. He's 92. It takes him six hours to walk to the telephone. Case will be over.”
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“- Mavis LaBreche: Which Wright brother did you buy this plane from?
- Willie the Pilot: Probably the one you dated in high school.
- Mavis LaBreche: Oh, that's reassuring. We have a funny pilot.”

Elaine Stritch - Mavis LaBreche
León Singer - Willie the Pilot

- Keller Coleman: Do you know what people mean when they say "safe sex"?
- Keller's Grandfather: Keller, at my age there ain't no such thing. I could keel over right in the middle of it. At my age you don't worry about catchin' somethin'. You worry about finishing up in one piece.
Breckin Meyer - Keller Coleman
Wayne Tippit - Keller's Grandfather

“You need to find yourself a nice woman. But I think it should be an older woman, since you're not going to do a young one any good.”
Ruth Attaway - Louise

“I can't fill up a space shuttle with geriatrics!”
James Cromwell - Bob Gerson

“The only thing you can guess about a broken down old man is that he is a survivor.”
James Caan - Joe Sarno