Allison Janney Quotes

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

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.

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.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.