Nora Ephron Quotes

It makes me look so old.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I've always looked old for my age.

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.

I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

I'm not saying my own looks don't give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain't gonna do it.

I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.