Derek Jacobi Quotes

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

Karen will never die. Max Mutchnick, one of the creators of the show, has always maintained that Karen is a bat who balls up and hangs from a rafter and sleeps during the day and that she'll live forever.