Polly Bergen Quotes

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

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

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

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

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

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

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.