Quotes about Birthday

“In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.”

“I'm a Virgo. That is me. To a tee. Me and Beyonce. And Amy Winehouse! Same birthday.”

“I have always told my family that I don't want my birthday to be celebrated and that they shouldn't get me anything, even though if they didn't I'd probably write a standup routine about it.”

“I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

“Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.”

“My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.”

“You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.”

“My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party.”

“The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday.”

“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.”

“Prince Philip had formally 'retired' in the summer of 2017, a couple of months after his 96th birthday, because the Queen encouraged him to do so. She wanted to stop him 'pushing himself all the time'. She had become anxious about him.”

“My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.”

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”

“I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.”

“A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.”

“I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!”

“I find the best birthday plans are the unplanned ones.”

“I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.”

“My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.”

“I saw these little trucks that I was obsessed with, and my dad got me one for my eighth birthday. That was the start of my racing career.”