Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Age for me is just a number.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

I don't have any issues with my age.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

I generally don't think one's age is all that meaningful - there are 50-year-olds who still act and think like children.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?