Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I love to be the best friend. It's like my dream in life to be everybody's best friend. ”

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.' ”

I could talk about 'Lady Bird' for literally the rest of my life! It never gets old. ”

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire. ”

I realised I had spent the majority of my adult life doing two characters - Maude from 1972-'79 and Dorothy from 1985-'92 - and I really didn't know what I wanted to do after 'Golden Girls.' I knew what I didn't want to do - any more sitcoms, or wait for the next great role that might never come. ”

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do. ”

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. ”

I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life. ”

I went to the studio, and I freestyled 'Beautiful' in, like, an hour and a half, and I threw it up, and people were like, 'This song's gonna change your life.' ”

I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun. ”