Margaret Cho Quotes

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

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 never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

I call myself a geriatric starlet.

There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

The older I get, the better I feel.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

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.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.