You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining, ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.