Paul Desmond Quotes

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work?

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

I don't mind having 16-year-old fans, but I hate just having 16-year-old fans. I want more diversity.

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.