• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." - John Burroughs Tweet
• "I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything." - Gloria Stuart Tweet
• "I left school on my 15th birthday." - David Bailey Tweet
• "With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years." - Thayer David Tweet
• "I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope." - Kevin Smith Tweet
• "I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children." - Diane von Furstenberg Tweet
• "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing." - Florence Welch Tweet
• "I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days." - Rachael Ray Tweet
• "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha." - Sloane Crosley Tweet
• "I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care." - Mikhail Baryshnikov Tweet