In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
