Senior Employment Quotes

I don't know if I want to be 65 or 67, still broadcasting games. But, why not? What else are you going to do?

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

It's a great job for a retired person. They feel a little important, get out of the house.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

A lot of the people that work at Disney World are older people, and a lot have also been through wars, so they just want to work where people are smiling all the time. That's what I've been told, anyway.

I'll be that guy who's 80 years old and still has a job. There is no 'retire' for me.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

I admire the older ladies who carry on working. Look at Betty Driver on 'Coronation Street' - she's incredible.

I am thankful to get a role at the age of 81.

I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.