You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.
I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.
When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.