Age-Related Challenges Quotes

Getting old is not for sissies.

I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.

Old age is life's parody.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.