Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

There's nothing good about being my age.

Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I've always looked old for my age.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.