James May Quotes

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

A guy says, I'm so old that I forgot how old I am. An old woman says, I'll tell you how old you are. Take off your clothes and bend over. The man does this. The woman says, You're seventy four. The man says, How can you tell? The woman says, You told me yesterday.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.