'Embrace Getting Older': Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Pamela Anderson and More Hollywood Stars Open Up About Aging

Goldie Hawn said: "It's all about how you make it. It's all in your mind. It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?"

Only Murders in the Building actress Meryl Streep said: "You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious and, when you have lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift."

"You are certainly physically diminished by age, but there are wonderful things about age – richness of experience, the full weight of all the time you've been spending getting old – and there's a certain ease in it for me," Harrison Ford shared.

He added: "I don't want to be young again."

Julianne Moore opened up: "We don't have an option, of course. No one has an option about aging, so it's not a positive or a negative thing, it just is."

Tom Hanks commented on aging, saying: "You can get old and embittered or you can feel lucky."

Padma Lakshmi reflected: "Growing older gracefully means having a keen curiosity about learning things about the world that you didn't know yesterday, no matter how many yesterdays you've had."

Susan Sarandon shared: "The secret – I mean, honestly, I think staying engaged and staying curious and having a good time is really a lot of it."

According to Pamela Anderson: "Chasing youth is just futile. You're never going to get there, so why not just embrace what's going on? I like it better."

Dustin Hoffman shared: "There are great parts to aging. Being around longer than other people, you can't help but have a certain amount of wisdom."

Brooke Shields said: "There's no shame in being older and getting older. There's a sense of pride, I think, that comes with it."

Andie MacDowell opened up, "I suffered in this business as an actress, with people always wanting me to look younger. I feel valuable where I am. I don't want people to have the expectation that I need to look younger to have value or to be beautiful and desirable."

Halle Berry noted: "We're all going to get older. Our skin is going to shrivel up and we're going to look different. I see things changing with my face and body, but I've never put all my eggs in that basket.

"I've always known that beauty is deeper than the physical body you're walking around in."

Helen Mirren advised: "It's much better to age dis-gracefully! Take it on the chin, and roll with it. You die young, or you get older. There is nothing in between! You might as well enjoy it."

In a "life review" at 60, Jane Fonda said she "totally changed the way I thought about myself and how I wanted to live the last third of my life. And I realized the importance of being intentional about how we go through life."

Salma Hayek explained: "Growing old, to me, has to do with repetition. Something gets old when you've done it for a long time. If you're always changing, if you're always curious, how can you be old?"