Tracey Emin Quotes

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

It makes me look so old.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

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.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

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

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?