Tamzin Outhwaite Quotes

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

I've always looked old for my age.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

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

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She still looks 12.' I'm like, 'I'm 22. What do you mean I don't look 16?' So I'm comfortable just rocking my young body.

I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.