Michael Caine Quotes

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

We're not getting any younger.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

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.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

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

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

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

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

You get old, you slow down.

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

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.