Paul Newman Quotes

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

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.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

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

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

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.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.