“Aging in women is "unbeautiful" since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be newly broken: Older women fear young ones, young women fear old, and the beauty myth truncates for all the female life span.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Mr. Robinson: You'll never be young again. Benjamin: I know.”— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, imdb.com
“Train yourself, distinguish yourself in war... But time flies. Before your dream materializes, you get gray hair. By that time your parents and friends are dead and gone.”— Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Kambei Shimada, Takashi Shimura, imdb.com
“We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.”— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, imdb.com
“Henry: Can I ask you guys something? What's gonna happen down the line? Someday she's gonna wake up and look in the mirror and notice her face's aged ten years overnight. Marlin: You know something, Henry? I worry about that every day of my damn life.”— George Wing, Henry Roth, Adam Sandler, imdb.com
“Rita: I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way. Phil: My years are not advancing as fast as you might think.”— Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Phil Connors, Bill Murray, imdb.com
“At 35, you’re too late for many age-based accomplishments, but kind of just realizing it.”— Laura Norkin, instyle.com
“Simon: You know, when I was younger, I used to think, you really wanna live to be 100 years old? You know, like a shriveled up raisin. And the answer to that now is yes. Because my son would be 70, his son would be 40, and his son would be 10. And I would be the man, you know. Pops. Could get used t…”— Allan Loeb, Simon Scott, Michael Pena, imdb.com
“I don’t consider myself a grandfather. I don’t even want to hear the term. There’s nothing good about the clock.”— , archive.is
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same.”— , amazon.com
“A person who is not afraid of looking like a fool gets to do a lot more dancing.”— Margaret Renkl, nytimes.com
“You know it's funny—beer never seems to improve with age. Wine does, but beer doesn't. Did you never notice that? The older beer gets, the worse it gets.”— Fred Willard, youtube.com
“Harold Clemens: [Referring to high school] I'm sure you were very attractive. Mary Hartman: [Charmed] Really? [Changing her tone] What do you think happened to me?”— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Mary Hartman, Louise Lasser, imdb.com
“I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is…”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.”— Don Rickles, esquire.com