Dawn French Quotes

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

If I can walk, I can play.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is no place for sissies.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

I am in the prime of my senility.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

I may not be able to run around the block anymore, but I love my life.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

Success doesn't scare us. I think we have staying power.