Jeanne Calment Quotes

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

It makes me look so old.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

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.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

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.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.