Katharine Hepburn Quotes

There's nothing good about being my age.

You have to embrace getting older.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

You get old, you slow down.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

It makes me look so old.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

It sucks getting old.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.