Michael Winter Quotes

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

Americans living longer than ever must save more than ever.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

You can have a full life after 50.

A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.

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

I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

I show rock and rollers how to grow old gracefully.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.

I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don't worry. It's going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don't worry, it's going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it's a real big question as to whether or not the system's going to be there.

Living too long exacts a painful price.