Marisa Tomei Quotes

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

There is no fashion for the old.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years.

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?