Old age quotes

“- Bill: It is indeed a pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman we picked up in medieval Mongolia in the year 1269.
- Ted: Please welcome, the very excellent barbarian...
- Ted, Bill: ...Mr. Genghis Khan!
- Ted: This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.”

Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“- Arnie: Whoa! Where's your teeth?
- Arthur Kirkland: What'd you do with your teeth, Grandpa?
- Grandpa Sam: Did I have teeth the last time you visited me?
- Arnie: Of course you had teeth, you had teeth this morning!”
Sam Levene - Arnie
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland
Lee Strasberg - Grandpa Sam

“It's hell gettin' older. Especially when you feel 21 inside. All the strengths that sustain you all through your life just vanish one by one. And you study your face in the mirror, and you... you notice something's missing. And then you realize it's your future.”
Elaine Stritch - Diane

“- Sally Albright: Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
- Harry Burns: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.”
Meg Ryan - Sally Albright
Billy Crystal - Harry Burns

People are always saying: "The children. Pity the children". I'm tired of the children. They haven't lived, given birth, watched their friends die. I have invested 80 years in this life. The children don't know what they're missing.

Jessica Booker - Rose

“You might not understand but when you're older there are people you're gonna meet who make you feel like connected. Like your heart is made of neon and when you find them you have to be with them.”

Wendy Foxworth - Tina Williams

“It's a funny thing about you women, most of you don't get wise soon enough! You wait until you're so old, nobody wants ya.”
Wallace Ford - Phroso

“- Al Connelly: You slept with a sixty year old?
- Eddie Hicks: Hey, when you work in the physical therapy industry - you make friends fast.”
Freddie Prinze Jr. - Al Connelly
Shawn Hatosy - Eddie Hicks

“You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.”
Maureen Stapleton - Pearl

“He was an old man in a young girl's world.”

Diane Lane - Corinne Burns

“- Harry Sanborn: Soft lips.
- Erica Barry: I'm so glad they still work. I haven't used them for kissing in such a long time, more like for wearing lipstick... and whistling.”

Jack Nicholson - Harry Sanborn
Diane Keaton - Erica Barry

“- Grandpa Charles James: [Annie smells him] What are you doing?
- Hallie as Annie: Making a memory! Years from now, when I'm all grown up, I'll always remember my grandfather and how he always smelled of...
peppermint and pipe tobacco.”
Ronnie Stevens - Grandfather
Lindsay Lohan - Hallie Parker

- Brodie: My Grandmother always used to say "why buy the cow, when you can get the sex for free?".
- TS Quint: She didn't!
- Brodie: All the time, before she became a lesbian on her 60th Birthday, but that's besides the point.
Jason Lee - Brodie
Jeremy London - TS Quint

“- Lincoln Rhyme: How is your mother?
- Eddie Ortiz: Oh, God, she's 76, and she's schtupping some guy named Morris. Can you believe it?
- Lincoln Rhyme: God bless her.
- Eddie Ortiz: It's Morris I'm worried about. He's 76, with a tricky ticker and an active pecker.”
Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme
Luis Guzmán - Eddie Ortiz

“I hate the smell of being old.”
Judy Parfitt - Vera Donovan

“Whoa! Look at those wrinkles. What is holding this woman together?”

David Spade - Kuzco

“- Marion: But you want nothing around to even remind you of mother?
- Marion's Father: Well, there are times when even an historian shouldn't look at the past.
- Laura: Do you think at your age you can find someone and fall in love again?
- Marion's Father: One hopes at my age to build up an immunity.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
John Houseman - Marion's Father
Martha Plimpton - Laura

“Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.”
George Burns

“I'm 60 years old, Gene. What are you going to do: write me a recommendation for the morgue?”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland

“- Jerry: You're young. You shouldn't be smoking. It's a hard habit to break.
- Ponyboy Curtis: Well, you're smoking.
- Jerry: I'm smoking but, I'm older than you are.”
Gailard Sartain - Jerry
C. Thomas Howell - Ponyboy Curtis

“- Gail Feinberger: Don't you think it's a little early in the morning for heavy metal?
- Roland Dalton: Gail, Gail, honey, sweetie, I love you, I'm gonna marry you, but you are making me feel very old. This is not heavy metal. This is Hendrix. Genius, maybe, but this is definitely not heavy metal.”
Blanche Baker - Gail Feinberger
Peter Weller - Roland Dalton

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now, what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is "How will I be regarded in the end, after I'm gone?".

Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“- Kee Nang: She's over 300 years old.
- Chandler Jarrell: How do you manage something like that?
- Kee Nang: One of her ancestors was raped by a dragon.
- Chandler Jarrell: Does that happen a lot where you come from?”
Charlotte Lewis - Kee Nang
Eddie Murphy - Chandler Jarrell

Okay, how ya doing? I'm Lloyd, and we're gonna watch the movie "Cocoon". I've never actually seen it, but I heard it's very good, it makes you happy, thats a good thing. It's about a group of older people who go to outer space... hope I didn't give anything away there.
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

“- Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': What about the older people?
- Old Missionary: We can't seem to cure them of the idea that our everyday life is only an illusion, behind which lies the reality of dreams.
- Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Actually, I'm very interested in these ideas. I specialise in opera myself.”
Klaus Kinski - Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
Salvador Godínez - Old Missionary