LeRoy Neiman Quotes

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

Few people know how to be old.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

I'm old and happy. I've had a good life.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.