Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.

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

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

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

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

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

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?"

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

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

Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

If the veins in the back of your legs look like the street map of greater Pittsburgh, you ain't nobody's babydoll.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

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.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."