Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I’m just a little kid from Akron.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The older you get, the better you get.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.