Michael Stipe Quotes

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

32 in modeling years is like 60.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

Age affects us all in the workplace. We all get a little less appealing as we get older, unfortunately.

I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.

When you hit 40, you suddenly find that they are looking at younger actresses.

When you're the older guy, everybody talks about you. When you win, everybody talks about you. When you lose, everybody talks about you.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

I didn't want to go there [America] at 34 years old and for people to say he's only going for the money. It's not what I'm going out there to do

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.