Diana Rigg Quotes

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

I don't feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I'm not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it's really interesting. I wouldn't want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

You are who you are, why should you deny your past?

I believe that life begins at 50.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.