I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'
It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.
As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.
Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She's gorgeous, she's smart, and she really takes care of herself. I think that she looks great. I think that as Jennifer Aniston gets older, she looks better and better, and I really like that.
As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
I've learned in my older age that sexy gets you further than brains.
My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.
