Robert Lepage Quotes

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

Few people know how to be old.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

Being seventy is not a sin.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

I want to age with some dignity.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.