Staying Engaged Quotes

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Keep interested, read books, watch television and try to keep in touch with life and what people are doing, seeing and enjoying.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Retire? Never! We are far too busy!

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

I don't like not being busy.

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?

Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

When you experiment with new forms of exercise, you stay motivated on a daily basis.

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.