Jodie Foster Quotes

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

I'm not a fan of fillers at all. If you've gone 35 or 40 years without big lips, I don't think it's time to start plumping them up artificially.

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.

I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.

Film is an avenue that I really want to explore more. I’ve learned that my personality is quite impulsive and spontaneous, so the idea that I could play a character for six months and then play something else immediately after is really appealing to me.

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.