John Prine Quotes

I believe in aging gracefully.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

I think I have aged gracefully.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I love getting older!

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

I know everyone hates when I say this, they think it's a cliché, but if you don't feel good in the bathing suit you're not going to look good. Confidence is really important.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

Age for me is just a number.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.

I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.