Tamsin Greig Quotes

It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

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

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

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.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

In Hollywood, no one is happy with who they are. When they're young, they want to look older. When they're older, they're getting botox shot in their face to look younger.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.