Nathan Lane Quotes

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

11 years is a long time in this industry.

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

I did MTV so long because it's been really hard to find a place that has been able to keep my interests where I can do more than one beat.

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.

You don't want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.

I remember when I was younger, I read that Jay-Z was 33 and I was just like, 'Damn! This dudes really still goin for it?' It's just so rare that you see any rapper over 30 doing anything interesting.