Alan King Quotes

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

I used to think 63 was old.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

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

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

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.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

I'm an older generation.

As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.