George Harrison Quotes

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.