David Brenner Quotes

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

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

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

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

Old is the new sexy.

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.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.

Old is when people compliment your alligator shoes, and you're not wearing any.

I don't feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I'm talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I'm like, 'Oh, I remember those days.'

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

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.