I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
You get old, you slow down.
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
Old men need applause too.
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.
Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.
Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living. " And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.
In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.