Joe Elliott Quotes

I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

Beauty and youth can stay inside, but it doesn't outside.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I've always looked old for my age.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?