“Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.” IfsWellsMayBigsAgeNumbersHavensHollywoodNotionAges Is Just A Number Author:Kate Walsh
“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.” KnowsAgeTodayArtistRichHavensAncientEntertainers Author:Pablo Picasso
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.” ThinkingCareAgeFunnyWorryGrowingHavensDiscoveryAgingDon't CareOld AgeUpliftingRetirementOld PeopleGetting OlderGrowing OldNot CaringFunny AgingFunny RetirementBirthdays And AgingSenior CitizenFunny AgeAge Of 40Inspirational AgeRetirement AgeRetirement HumorWise AgeAge Of 20Turning 40 Author:Ann Landers
“Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.” PeopleFeelsDoneAgeWantedGrowingCarHavensFineTerribleHorrorComplainingOld AgeGrowing OldComplainersOld Car Author:Martha Gellhorn
“I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.” KindDoneAgeRolesHavensModelsSeriesStartingRole Models Author:Miley Cyrus
“People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoneHappensAgeYoungLyingCertainHavensYouthAmountInsignificant Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.” AgeHavensMinesFinishedRemindingClose Friends Author:Athol Fugard
“A mid life crisis is nothing but getting to the point where you go, have I done what I wanted to do? Am I living the life that I want to live? Am I appreciating what I have? If you don't get to that point developmentally, you're not doing it correctly. The people who get to that age and haven't reassessed usually haven't faced the fact that that's where they are.” PeopleIfsWantDoneFactsAgeWantedHavensAppreciateCrisisLive LifeLife CrisisMid Life Crisis Author:Julianne Moore
“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.” PeopleIfsRunningAgeFormWaterHavensStonesMy FavoriteGoldenHutsTrianglesThailandFavorite PlacesRunning WaterStone AgeStilts Author:Arthur Frommer
“I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.” IfsSaidI CanEnoughAgeWishHavensFineReturnLessonsSeasonsSufficientNo PointJanuaryRadiantSeasons Of LifeAgelessJanuary 1 Author:Peace Pilgrim
“After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.” LongAgeJourneyHavensRoundsTicketsCivilitySavageryLong Journey Author:Cullen Hightower
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“Rock of the ages been a really interesting job. It's been exhausting. It's been the hardest thing I've ever done because it's just so big, and I haven't had a lot of time. And I'm just kind of blowing through this. And everybody's, like, happy, and giving thumbs up. Most of the actors have said "this is the best role they've ever had." So you know, that's important to me.” KnowsGivingKindSaidImportantDoneBigsAgeJobsActorsInterestingRolesRocksHavensHardestHardest ThingThumbsReally InterestingExhaustingThumbs Up Author:Adam Shankman
“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.” PeopleMenFeelingsProblemAgeAbleForceWhiteMiddleEffectsHavensExampleHigherDrugSuicideRateAlcoholEtcGet BackArticlesImaginaryWhite ManMiddle AgesRecessionsDemographicsGallopingGreat Recession Author:Rick Moody
“Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.” WellsHas BeensStillsIdeasDifferentHardSeemsAgeAblePlansHavensColorLateSittingDifficultyAddGuitarMusicalOld AgePianoJapanGood IdeasGearsSpotlightSitting DownPaletteBanjosDifferent ColorsWorking Very Hard Author:Livingston Taylor
“I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayYearsAgeAbleCertainHavensBalanceLuckyEight Author:Elijah Wood
“Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.” AgeJesusVoiceChurchHavens Author:Robert Godfrey
“The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.” PeopleThinkingStillsAgeSongSoundGenerationsModernHavensCatOriginalsThemeMy GenerationLegendaryPanthersPink Panther Author:Beyonce Knowles
“Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.” PeopleMindIdeasBigsAgeGenerationsMinutesHavensGrewGrew UpNuclearAnnihilationHardcoreForthcomingGodzilla Author:Brad Warner
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig