40s Quotes
Collection of top 85 famous quotes about 40s
40s Quotes & Sayings
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I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
— Evangeline Lilly
Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
— Melissa Rosenberg
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
— John Kricfalusi
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.
— Eva Mendes
Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.
— Trey Anastasio
I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.
— Bill Rancic
I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.
— Sara Sheridan
If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.
— Tom Hanks
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
— Dana Delany
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
— Kate Williams
You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again.
— Clayton Moore
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
— John Bright
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.
— Loni Anderson
I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
— Claudia Schiffer
I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
— Laura Linney
There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
— Dolph Lundgren
I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.
— Joseph Altuzarra
In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.
— Andre Holland
Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
— Karl Lagerfeld
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
— Christian Lacroix
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
— Joe Pantoliano
Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is?
— Neale Donald Walsch
I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!
— Sonam Kapoor
I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s ... Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?
— Courteney Cox
You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
— Helen Hunt
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
— Taylor Lautner
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
— Rowan Atkinson
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
— Yancy Butler
I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.
— Emilie De Ravin
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
— Graeme Murphy
The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.
— Sarah
I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.
— Tori Amos
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
— A. Scott Berg
I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.
— Guy Pearce
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
— Joshua Cohen
Even though I am in my mid-40s, I live like I am in my mid-20s.
— Chris Eigeman
The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.
— Paul Weller
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
— Katie Findlay
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
— Debra Winger
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
— Jack Nicholson
People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.
— Terry Zwigoff
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
— Pearl Cleage
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
— Carla Bley
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
— Gene Luen Yang
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
— Clint Eastwood
I like a lot of French literature, everything that was published like in the 40s and 50s. I like a lot of that.
— Robert Pattinson
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.
— Bill Rodgers
Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.
— Richard Griffiths
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!
— Sheryl Underwood
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
— Art Garfunkel
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
— Steve Jobs
What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.
— Sharon Stone
Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.
— Matthew Ashford
For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.
— Jane Kaczmarek
I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
— Vivica A. Fox
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
— Anthony Kiedis
I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s ... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.
— Thomas Jane
I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.
— Lenny Abrahamson
If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.
— Amanda Peet
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
— Jami Attenberg
But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
— Debra Winger
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
— Francesca Annis
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
— Parker Stevenson