Stephanie Beacham Quotes

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

I'm a grandfather now.

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

I don't think that I'm old.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I just think, at my stage of life, becoming a new grandfather, it's about time I started to behave like a grandfather.