Woody Allen Quotes

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

The older you get, the more difficult it is to keep your body right.

It sucks getting old.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

You get old, you slow down.

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

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.

When you are 25, everything comes easy to you. When you get past 35, every training session is a sacrifice. I can't see myself doing that.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.