Joan Rivers Quotes

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

I've always looked old for my age.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

It makes me look so old.

I understand that there are thick, dark circles under my eyes. I have grown to appreciate them. I have noticed that my nose grows a little hookier on a near-monthly basis. That's fine. I know there are wrinkles ready to stake their claim as full time residents on my forehead any moment now. My dad has those, too, and I find that endearing.

When I was younger, I had terrible skin... my mother has terrible skin. Male-pattern hair loss is starting to come in... my dad is bald. It's so unfair; my brother's tall, has perfect skin, great hair, but I'm like the runt.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I'm no longer the young woman I was playing before, and I'm in a profession where that continuum that is me is irrelevant to most people - they're meeting me for the first time, seeing me for the first time, and they're seeing an old woman, so that's what I've got to start being.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

I think I look more like me than my father's daughter now.

I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.

It is not like adding wrinkles to look older; it is using the wrinkles I already have to say something else. What is disturbing is not seeing more lines on my face but seeing that the range of possibilities of what I can do is much more limited.

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

I still feel like a girl. I don't quite feel like a woman. I'll probably be 90 and feel like, 'Not a woman yet!'

I don't want to say it myself, but Gautam is a very good-looking boy. He has my eyes and Mahesh's smile.

I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.

I can do anything I want with the rest of my body, but the face is something I've inherited. I should thank my parents for it.

I feel a lot older than I am.