Age 40 Quotes

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

I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40.

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

By 40, all women are amazing.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

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.

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.