Rachel Weisz Quotes

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

You get old, you slow down.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.