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I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life. David Beckham

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Rowan Williams

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

George Burns

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Rick Reilly

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Eugene O'Neill

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Jerry Seinfeld

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

Mike Wallace

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

Norman Jewison

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Steve Coogan

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Richard Virenque

I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.

David Beckham

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

Robert Capa

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

Jerry Hall

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

Randy Johnson

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

Mark Twain

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Joseph Barbera

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

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

Lillian Gordy Carter

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

Charlie Bell

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

James Rosenquist

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

Nick Cave

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Patty Duke

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Joni Mitchell

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

Al Jourgensen

You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

Jerry Lewis

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

Dana Carvey

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

Elvis Presley

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Elia Kazan

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Carine Roitfeld

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Gail Parent

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Jimmy Dean

I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

Martha Stewart

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

Diane Lane