Gloria Stuart Quotes

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I used to think 63 was old.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.

I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.