"People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education."
"The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate."
"Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose."
"I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight."
"'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR."
"I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules."
"I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today."
"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."
"My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in."
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."
"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."
"There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure."
"From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting."
"I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel."
"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television."
"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."
"Age is how we determine how valuable you are."
"I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade."
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
"I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game."
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
"To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate."
"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
"There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors."
"I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union."
"I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet."