Michael Flatley Quotes

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.

I used to think 63 was old.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

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.

I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

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

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

Life doesn't end at 30.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

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

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

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

I don't think about my physical age.