Joan Rivers Quotes

What I will do is work, although it is clear that we all want to play.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.

Turning 30, you see changes. You have to work harder as you get older.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'