- Nov 07, 2020
Getting Older Quotes
A gentler way to think about the years adding up.
These lines look at aging less as decline and more as a shift in vantage point, where distant events finally make sense and roles once considered limiting start to open up. Several voices here describe feeling both wiser and, oddly, still not fully grown. For related moods, check out Feel quotes.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can't even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm getting older, turning 40 this year. I had a period where I thought each expedition had to be something harder, something faster. But you can't go on like that, or you're going to die.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be moaning about getting older or being overweight. I just want to focus on being happy and healthy.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got three kids, and my three kids make me feel like I'm getting older every day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020