“Age for me is just a number.”
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“You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.”
“Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.”
“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 didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.”
“I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.”
“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”
“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.”
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.”
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”
“When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.”
“I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.”
“I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.”
“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”
“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.”
“We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.”
“At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.”
“We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.”
“My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.”
“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”
“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”