You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Age affects how people experience time.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.
I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.
My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along to rehearsals when they couldn't get childcare. I was watching pensioners dance around in sweatpants, which was very traumatic for a young child.
I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
