Successful Aging Quotes

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

If I am still fighting at 35 I will be disappointed.

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

I remember when I was younger, I read that Jay-Z was 33 and I was just like, 'Damn! This dudes really still goin for it?' It's just so rare that you see any rapper over 30 doing anything interesting.

I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring.

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!

The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.