Geoffrey Rush Quotes

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

I used to think 63 was old.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

My later years are my treasure years.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

You have to embrace getting older.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.