Anthony Holden Quotes

I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard as I can to act like I'm 65, but it's very difficult.

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

I believe in aging gracefully.

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I love getting older!