Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters.

If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.

For whatever reason, 34 is old. Not to me.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

Chinese people age overnight.

In America, the old are neglected.

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.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I wrapped 'Buffy' and I always felt on 'Buffy' that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.

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

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

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.