I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, 'With your style of game, you can play until you're 40.' I'm sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?
If I am still fighting at 35 I will be disappointed.
At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.
I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.
In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.
