Jerry Hall Quotes

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Chinese people age overnight.

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

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Being seventy is not a sin.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.