M. C. Gainey Quotes

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

Even my stuntman is old.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

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!'

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

We're not getting any younger.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

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

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

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

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I feel old.