Leslie Jordan Quotes

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

All our children are grown up and have their own lives.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.

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

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.