Tanya Fischer Quotes

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

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.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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.'

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Every experience makes you a man.

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

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.