I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
My career has been over since 1990.
I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.
For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility.
I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
I do not know if I will stay in the game when I do retire; I have got humanity, so I do not know if I will go into law.
What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.
'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
My later years are my treasure years.
I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'
I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
In retirement there are no ranks...we are all ‘have-beens’ together:
Lawrence of Arabia
