I was working out with my trainer
this morning and she incorporates
a lot of your moves.
And the Jane Fonda moves still hold up.
Those are some good exercises.
You were doing Jane.
I was doing Jane.
I was doing you and we were just talking
about what great shape you're in and she was saying,
how old is she now?
And I said, I don't know, she's like probably 73, 74?
And then I heard today that you just turned 80.
You look incredible.
Thank you.
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I mean it feels like, you know that when you were younger,
you didn't think 80 would feel like this, right?
I didn't think I'd live this long, are you kidding?
I never-- If you had told me when
I was 20 or 30 that I would actually still be acting,
still active, at 80, on a show like this, I would have said,
you're out of your mind.
There's no way.
No, I didn't think I'd live this long.
So every day I get up and I want to pinch myself.
I feel very blessed, but I've worked for it.
Yes, you do.
I've tried hard to stay healthy and--
Look at you.
We're just looking at you.
I wouldn't want to go back to that for anything.
How old were you there, do you remember?
Probably 24, 25, something like that.
Yeah, and when you say you didn't think
you would live that--
Because I grew up feeling the same way.
I didn't think I was going to be an older person.
I thought I was going to die young,
and did you really think you were not
going to live a long Time
No, I definitely thought I was not going to live.
I thought I'd die lonely and probably from alcohol
or something like that.
And the fact that I'm not an addict, and I'm 80,
and I'm working, and it's just a miracle to me.
Yeah we each, we keep getting new chances all the time
in life.
That's right.
Well, you look fantastic.
And then it's getting wiser part is pretty nice too.
Yeah, well that's why you say you would never
go back there because--
What do you feel now, what?
Just free that you don't have to do things you don't want to do?
There's that.
I don't have as much ego stake in outcomes.
If something doesn't work out, you know.
Also, if you have a whole lot of time behind you
and just a little in front of you, as is the case with me,
I can look back and say well, I survived that.
You know friends have died, there's been divorces,
there's been all kinds of difficult things, I survived.
You don't sweat the small stuff, right?
You don't make mountains out of molehills and assuming health,
older people tend to be much less hostile, less angry, less
anxious, more empathic.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just really cool.
My daughter can still press my buttons, but it doesn't stay.
I mean, mothers and daughters, it's challenging, right?
Guess what, you don't get over it, it doesn't go away.
So your birthday was recently.
Someone gave you a really great birthday present, really
considerate.
Do we have the picture of it?
It is how many bottles of Tito's was this?
80 bottles of Tito's.
80 for your 80th.
Right, and guess what?
I haven't had one of them.
Not that I didn't want to, but I have other bottles.
You have to finish those first?
I have a bar.
I've been married to three alcoholics and I love them,
I mean, great people.
But I never had a bar and my last boyfriend
had a bar in his house, and what I realized
is it's great to have a bar.
It's like a focal point, a social focal point.
Right.
So then I had to go and get the best tequila, the best vodka.
One of the bad things about getting older
is like I'm working tomorrow, OK, I
have five pages or six of dialogue I have to learn.
If I had a drink tonight, even just one,
I'd be at half mast tomorrow.
It's such a bummer.
I know when you get older, you just can't handle it the same.
Uh uh.
I'm so jealous of people that--
You're not there yet.
Oh, I'm there.
Oh, you are?
I'm pretty there.
It definitely affects you completely differently.