Ian McShane Quotes

Of course, no one wants to get older.

We're not getting any younger.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

You get old, you slow down.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.

I used to think 63 was old.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.