Evelyn Lauder Quotes

I wear my age with pride.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

I'm over trying to be younger or look younger.

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 call myself a geriatric starlet.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

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.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.