- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020