Agnes Varda Quotes

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

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Chinese people age overnight.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.