David LaChapelle Quotes

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

Your priorities change when you get older.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

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

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.