Ann Dowd Quotes

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

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

I have to say I don't mind getting older.

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

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

As I get older, I get happier.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful.

I like gettin' old.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.