Gertrude Stein Quotes

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

Things are always different from what they might be.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

You can't be 16 forever.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

I used to love getting older.