Claire Foy Quotes

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I quite like being old.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

Being old is such a treat!

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

I like gettin' old.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Growing old is not growing up.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.