Tyne Daly Quotes

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

There's nothing good about being my age.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.