In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.

The sixth Harry Potter film – I don’t like my performance in that film at all.

I’m the only kid in the world who doesn’t want an eighth Harry Potter book.

I think you only get better with age.

I think I’m a better actor now than I was 20 years ago.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you’re in emotional debt, you’re pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I’ve always wanted to be a magician.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Age is just a number. If you are fit and in form, you can still perform at the highest level.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.

I don’t want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty’s always good enough for me

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.

In every age, the cry for justice has been the cry for equal rights.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I’ve mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it… Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

The danger of our age is that people think they have everything figured out.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

I plan to live to be 120!

Since I was 13 or 14, I’ve always felt older than I actually am.

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia, because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

I went to college for four years.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me – that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Age is just a number. It’s never too late to chase your dreams and live your best life.

Back in the ’60s, there was a car sticker that read, ‘Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,’ but I ate like a horse.

The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don’t have to do/wear/say anything you don’t want to. It wasn’t until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

Being young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day.

People say my content’s mature, I don’t think it’s mature at all. I’m just a normal 20 year old. I’m opinionated.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said ‘Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?’ he said, son, you plum wore me out.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos.

Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, ‘You wrote a lot of stuff that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.’

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Even at the age of 36, I’m always looking at ways to improve.

The arts are a reflection of the world we live in.

At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.

When you’re 25, it’s a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I started out as a guitarist in the early ’80s.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

The Stone Age didn’t end because the World ran out of stones.

I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

I’m 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that’s it. I don’t think I’ll ever be hip again!

When I was 4, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

Whether I’m 40, 50 or 60, I’m going to be as physically strong as I am able.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I’m a man, I’m 40!

Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.

The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Lately, my sexual fantasies revolved around once again having a landlord. Looks, age, and hygiene didn’t matter, as long as he had a tool belt and said, Don’t worry, I’ll fix it.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues

Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

It’s possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don’t appreciate how tough your elders had it. It’s true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

One line I’d draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn’t. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they’ll get penalized with lower benefits.