Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.
I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.
I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
I look at people like Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson, Goldie Hawn, they're the people I want to be.
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.
Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
Cate Blanchett. Judi Dench. Helen Mirren. Everything about them. Even their fashion choices. They're so with it and cool and women I admire. They take chances. They're chameleons. Everything that they do. They're also amazing mothers.
