Funny movie quotes about aging – enjoy!
Elderly bellhop: Were you ringing?
Hotel Manager (Robert Woolsey): No, I was tolling. I thought you were dead.
— Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
At a private gambling party, one woman watches the roulette wheel spin and thinks out loud that she’s heard that it’s lucky to bet your age.
Another woman comments snarkily, “There are only thirty-six numbers on the board.”
— Long Lost Father (1934)
A doctor dismisses an aging Don Juan, who complains of aches and fatigue.
Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks Sr.): Aren’t you going to give me any prescription?
Doctor: I shall — a very important prescription. Don’t climb more than one balcony a day.
— The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Gil: There’s a physiological as well as psychological angle in my father’s relationship with Julia Wolf that the police have overlooked, and I think it settles the whole question. You see, my father was a sexagenarian.
Reporter: He was?
Gil: Yes, he admitted it.
Reporter: A sexagenarian, eh?
Gil: [nods]
Reporter: But we can’t put that in the paper.
Gil: Why not?
Reporter: You know how they are; sex?
Gil: Well, then just say he was sixty years old.
Reporter: Is that what that means?
— The Thin Man (1934)
“Things is moving too fast in my life. Always have. I mean. one day I was this little girl. The next day I was married. Next I was having babies. Next day I was out here singing for you all. Patsy’s always saying, “Little girl, you got to run your own life”. But my life’s running me.”
Coal Miner’s Daughter
“Love is like the measles. You only get it once, and the older you are, the harder you take it.”
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
“Dr. Barnaby Fulton: Edwina, imagine: people never aging.
Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Oh, it sounds frightening.”Monkey Business“Dr. Barnaby Fulton: I was just thinking, it’s queer about people.
Mrs. Edwina Fulton: What about people?
Dr. Barnaby Fulton: Through no fault of their own they get older.
Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Now, that’s a profound remark.
“Barbara Gordon: Batman’s been on the job for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time.
The Lego Batman Movie
Bruce Wayne: He has aged phenomenally.”