Craig Brown Quotes

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

Old men are children for the second time.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

I'm an old-fashioned girl, and as a kid, I used to go on holidays to Scarborough.

As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day.

As a young child, I loved the hugs and kisses, but I also remember getting to the age when they no longer felt OK. My parents would kiss me when they dropped me off at school, which was obviously embarrassing because having loving parents makes you a social pariah.