Ageing Process Quotes

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

Old men are children for the second time.

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.