One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything.
Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.
I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.
I do not want to be young again.
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.
I'll admit that I enjoyed my 20s more than my teens, my 30s more than my 20s.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'
I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.
The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.
18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.
Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.
The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.
The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.
I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
