Bruce Forsyth Quotes

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I am in the prime of my senility.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

It's not like I'm shy or anything. I'm not.

When the age is in, the wit is out

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Dietrich would never do that

When you become senile, you won't know it.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

If I really lose the rest of my memory, don't let my kids spend a lot of money to put me in an expensive care facility. If they treat me very well there, I will not remember it, and if they treat me badly I will not remember that either. So it really won't matter, will it?

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.