Zitat des Tages über Alt werden / Growing Old:
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
But time growing old teaches all things.
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.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Growing old is not growing up.
The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I've still got, but losing the memory is another matter.
