Michael Scott Quotes

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

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 think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

In the beginning, every little thing used to bother me. Now, even the worst sounding things sound like a joke because I've seen everything.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

I think I was born aged about 86.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.