James Hillman Quotes

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

I've always looked old for my age.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In fact I don't like looking at myself. The face-lift was just about looking rested.

I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

It makes me look so old.

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.