When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.
Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.
I was getting calls in 1970 from teenagers, little girls, and they'd say, 'Oh, I like your stories about so-and-so so much. How old are you? 20?' 'No. Older than that.' '30?' 'No. Older than that.' And they'd hang up.
People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up.
Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
Not everybody comes out when they're in their twenties, you know?
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.
Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.
