Thandie Newton Quotes

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously glows.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

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?

I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.