Mamie Van Doren Quotes

I'm over trying to be younger or look younger.

I'm 56 - I don't want to look like I'm 20.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on...' I actually haven't seen any of my movies in a long time. Being more self-aware now, and being an adult, I'm a little bit embarrassed to watch them.

It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

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

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.