Octavia Spencer Quotes

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Your body will tell you what it needs.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am.