If you’re not getting happier as you get older, then you’re fuckin’ up

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn’t stand the theater geeks!

I don’t have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

I look younger; I feel younger. I’m in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

Time don’t get older, it get better.

I’d definitely like more kids when I’m older. And I think I’m like every woman in that I’d like to get married one day.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

As you get older , you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.

You’ll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you’ll be able to speak...

Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to...

When a subject pops into a director’s head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don’t. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there’s not as much of a...

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I’dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on...

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.

When you’re older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

As I’ve grown older, I’ve developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.

We have to understand the emergency of the situation. Our leadership has failed us. Young people must hold older generations accountable for the mess they have created. We need to get angry, and transform that...

When I went back and watched a couple of the older ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you’ll live forever.

I want to be the only American actress who doesn’t do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you’ll never move them.

As I got older, my voice got better.

There’s always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries – or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time,...

But I will say that Harve Presnell… he was one of those guys who, when you’re standing in a room with him… he’s such an older masculine force that I remember thinking, ‘Wow, his voice...

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, ‘Thank you for all the laughter.’ And my standard answer is, ‘It was my pleasure.’ But that’s the truth.

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the...

Older teens tend to write to me and say, ‘Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.’

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I’m grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old’s birthday party, you couldn’t pay me enough.

I can’t imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she’s older.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me – I don’t know how they do it.

I definitely used to lie about my age. I’m from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about...

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as...

Getting older is hard.

Thank God we’re not like America. Everyone wants to look like they’re 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

I haven’t chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it’s time, I’ll look, and if I can’t find one to join, I’ll make another party.

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the...

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.