John Patrick Quotes

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

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

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

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

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.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

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

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

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.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Even my stuntman is old.