El-P Quotes

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

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

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

We in middle age require adventure.

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

I did have a midlife crisis.

I had to figure out at 61 years of age: 'Holy moly! Who am I?'

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.