Age Shock Quotes

At 58, I knew I had to get a divorce. At that age, it's an almost impossible thing to go through. I had been married 33 years. I had been married for 33 years. I didn't know anything else.

I can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 - 71 years old. It's kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, "Yup. That's exactly what I look like."

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?

I never, ever anticipated I would be a 46-year-old man impersonating Cher.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.