Jennifer Grey Quotes

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.

All would live long, but none would be old.

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.

We're not getting any younger.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

I don't like ageing, I don't like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.