Deborah Meaden Quotes

I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

With age, I've gained confidence.

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.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

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

I'm just getting older and better.

People tell me the 50s are the best time - I'm ready! That whole stigma of being over 40 and not being sexy anymore is fake news. We're more vibrant because we have experience; we know our bodies.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.