Bel Kaufman Quotes

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

I think I am a little too old now.

Old age is no place for sissies.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

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

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

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I don't think that I'm old.

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

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.

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.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I am in the prime of my senility.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

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