Peter Hitchens Quotes

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

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 avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

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.'

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.