Old age quotes

“- Cleopatra: Welcome.
- Herod: I hope to renew an old friendship.
- Cleopatra: I hope so too.
- Herod: Well, time has made you older and wiser - and me younger and more beautiful.”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra
Joseph Schildkraut - Herod

“I guess they're right. Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back! Don't you go dying on me!”

Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“- Carl Roebuck: Sixty years old and still getting crushes on other men's wives. I would hope by the time I'm your age, I'm a little smarter than that.
- Sully: Can't hurt to hope. You sure are off to a slow start.”
Bruce Willis - Carl Roebuck
Paul Newman - Sully

“It is kind of you to indulge your elders in their vices. Just as I indulge the young in theirs.”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale

“- Rose Morgan: Look at me, I'm a grown woman in a prom dress.
- Claire: Oh, please. You look adorable.
- Rose Morgan: Adorable? I look like an over-the-hill Barbie Doll.”

Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan
Mimi Rogers - Claire

“- Duckie: You know what an older women does for me?
- Iona: Changes your diapers?
- Duckie: Touché.”
Jon Cryer - Duckie
Annie Potts - Iona

“- Death: I was only curious, he's not on any of my lists. But you are, Daniel.
- Danny Madigan: Now?
- Death: No, you die a grandfather...”

Sir Ian McKellen - Death
Austin O'Brien - Danny Madigan

“- Highway: Shut your face, hippie!
- Corporal 'Stitch' Jones: Hippie?
- Corporal 'Stitch' Jones: [whispers in Highway's ear] There haven't been hippies in centuries. Are you freeze-dried or doing hard time?”
Clint Eastwood - Highway
Mario Van Peebles - Stitch

- Vanessa: He has a five year plan.
- Sonny Koufax: What is it? "Don't die"?

Kristy Swanson - Vanessa
Adam Sandler - Sonny Koufax

“Don't get physical with me, Felix! I'm too old to hit, but I can spit you to death!”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“Each year comes and goes, and I'm still here. Ha! And they keep dying. You know? Sometimes I wonder if God forgot about me.”
Burgess Meredith - Grandpa Gustafson

“I usually drink my dinner.”
Burgess Meredith - Grandpa Gustafson

“Have you ever noticed when you get old, your feet swell up.”

Rose Gregorio - Brenda Samuels

“My Ma died last year, she was 95. Stabbed in a bar fight.”
Jack Palance - Duke Washburn

“- Jennifer: He wasn't very old.
- David Lightman: No, he was pretty old. He was 41.
- Jennifer: Oh yeah? Oh, that's old.”
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer
Matthew Broderick - David

“- Tom Dodge: What do you think about our boat, Pascal?
- Marty Pascal: I feel I need a tetanus shot just from looking at it. The only thing holding her together, are the bird droppings, sir.”
Kelsey Grammer - Tom Dodge
Rob Schneider - Marty Pascal

“Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Sally Miles: You know, you are sexually notorious.
- Tim Culley: Semi-fraudulent reputation, which I do everything I can to encourage.
- Sally Miles: Why?
- Tim Culley: Because it's the best way for an old man to compete in a young man's world.”
Julie Andrews - Sally Miles
William M. Holden - Tim Culley

“I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him most who died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them.”
Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab

“- Holly Goodhead: Come on, Mr. Bond. A 70-year-old can take 3 G's.
- James Bond: The trouble is there's never a 70-year-old around when you need one.”
Lois Chiles - Holly Goodhead
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“There's little or no gold to be dug. He's plenty old and people don't mature anymore. They stay jackasses all their lives.”
Bill Erwin - Grandfather

“- Frances: Time has come for me to embrace my years, don't you think, mother? Welcome them, not fight them anymore.
- Elspeth: Why should you embrace your years? No one else does.”
Emma Thompson - Frances
Phyllida Law - Elspeth

“- Cosmo Castorini: What's the matter, Pop?
- Old Man: I'm confused!”

Vincent Gardenia - Cosmo Castorini
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. - Old Man

“I suppose we all have to grow old someday. I just don't think you got to look bad in the process.”
Jessica Lange - Carly Marshall

“- Harry Rex Vonner: Lucien, I thought you were dead.
- Lucien Wilbanks: I'm trying.”
Oliver Platt - Harry Rex Vonner
Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks