“My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that...” — Frances McDormand Quote

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.