Ellen Burstyn Quotes

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

People assume that they will retire at 60 and die when they are 70. If you can think positive, live a healthy life, listen to your body and follow a regime, then you can live for 100 years, healthy and happy.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.

I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.

There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?