Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

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.

It makes me look so old.

I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

The hands really show signs of age.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

I've always looked old for my age.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

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

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

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.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

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

My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

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

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

Part of my job is to be looked at and I do think we live in a world where you are judged on your looks. If you look at someone you previously liked and they look old and decrepit, I don't think it's that pleasant.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.