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Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit. -- Scott Bakula
Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out. -- Ray Romano
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. -- Albert Camus
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? -- Penny Marshall
There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. -- Clint Eastwood
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age. -- Miuccia Prada
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says. -- Jane Seymour
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. -- Michaela Watkins
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. -- John Mayer
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. -- Graydon Carter
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. -- Tina Fey
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. -- Seamus Heaney
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. -- T. S. Eliot
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. -- Elizabeth Taylor
A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert. -- Roger Ebert
It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. -- Julie Walters
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. -- Katharine Hepburn
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet. -- Olivia Wilde
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? -- Arthur Miller
You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. -- Mia Wasikowska
Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. -- Michael Patrick King
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. -- Christopher Hitchens
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? -- Stuart Rose
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did. -- Jenny McCarthy
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. -- David Bowie
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. -- Tom Colicchio
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. -- Douglas Coupland
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. -- Lesley Nicol
After a certain age you get the face you deserve. -- Joan Collins
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting. -- Marilyn Monroe
I have never planned to have babies by a certain age. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves. -- C. S. Lewis
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back. -- Brian Clough
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. -- John Updike
For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends. -- Scott Foley
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. -- Ben Hecht
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. -- Al Purdy
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out. -- Charles Dance
Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot. -- Peter Capaldi
At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass. -- Catherine Deneuve
But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age. -- Sharon Gless
Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age. -- Jeanne Moreau
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony. -- Penn Jillette
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. -- William Lyon Phelps
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. -- Jean de la Bruyere
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. -- Marcel Proust
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. -- William Gibson
Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.' -- Elaine Stritch
Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them. -- Ann Landers
I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore. -- Courteney Cox
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are. -- Bradford Cox
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. -- Helen Rowland
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. -- Rufus Wainwright
You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents. -- Ellie Goulding
I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio]. -- Francisco Costa
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling. -- Fran Lebowitz
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. -- Bertrand Russell
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. -- Jessica Lange
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. -- Haruki Murakami
I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible. -- Sarah Ruhl
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter. -- Marianne Williamson
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13. -- Megan Abbott
I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be. -- Madonna Ciccone
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. -- Arthur Smith
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore. -- Moby
Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff. -- Stockard Channing
Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style. -- Nicolas Ghesquiere
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s. -- Jesse Ventura
I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people. -- Sonia Braga
If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. -- Bias of Priene
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. -- Richard Schickel
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak. -- Keith Richards
At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. -- Mark Jenkins
My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25. -- Tena Desae
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror. -- Nora Ephron
You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it. -- Jarvis Cocker
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. -- Mitch Daniels
Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted. -- Liza Cody
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close. -- Marianne Williamson
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else. -- Daniel Handler
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. -- Douglas Coupland
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. -- William Butler Yeats
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions ... -- Margaret Deland
You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working. -- Matt Haig
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age. -- Joan Rivers
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford. -- Martin Amis
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. -- Angela Carter
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.' -- Laura Prepon
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." -- T. S. Eliot
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. -- Henry James
When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life. -- Ford Kiernan
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.' -- Megan Follows
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors. -- Robert Benton
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. -- Francoise Sagan
Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it. -- Elias Koteas
You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it. -- Burt Reynolds
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age. -- Thomas Merton
Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now. -- Ted Cruz
People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong. -- Michel Houellebecq
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. -- Wynton Marsalis
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player. -- Leigh Steinberg
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here. -- Colm Toibin
I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble. -- John Mellencamp
After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ... -- Doris Lessing
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age. -- Anna Kendrick
Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you. -- Thomm Quackenbush
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool. -- Adam Brody
The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age. -- Paul Weller
It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic! -- Johnny Depp
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba. -- Juan Enriquez
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns. -- Tom Shales
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school. -- Kate Bush

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