Turning 40 Quotes Page 2

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth.

I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.

Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something.

To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

I didn't write much until I turned 40.

Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting.

I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.

It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.

Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.