If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.
It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.
But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
A fetus is no more a human than an acorn is a tree.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
