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Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. — Salvador Dali

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. — Robert Gottlieb

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade. — Gwyneth Paltrow

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through. — Elizabeth Taylor

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. — H.L. Mencken

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later
as in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence. — Pierce Brosnan

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant. — Marcia Cross

I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years. — Monica Wood

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James

say, I'll be right back. When, in her forties, she looks at her hands and doesn't recognise them as her — Brooke Davis

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. — Natalie Cole

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. — Ernest Hemingway,

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger. — Frank Langella

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style. — Vincent Cassel

But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties — Adrienne Rich

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. — Rik Mayall

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence. — Erin Merryn

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. — Gary Oldman

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published) — Katrina D. Miller

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

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. — Robbie Robertson

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror. — Rebecca Harding Davis

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed. — MaryJanice Davidson

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.' — Helen McCrory

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old. — Robert Downey Jr.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it. — Cynthia Payne

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great. — Jennifer Aniston

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood. — Meghan Daum

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ... — Victor Hugo

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young. — Henry Miller

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that. — Kit Harington

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels. — John Charles Pollock

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. — Harrison Ford

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. — John Malkovich

Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into. — Steve Coogan

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once. — Dres

Before I was in my forties. If you're still doing this — Meg Jay

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid. — Billy Bob Thornton

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains. — Jane Wiedlin

Teracia was a tatted former client in her forties that had met the love of her life thanks to Gerri. She was Gerri's first attempt at matchmaking. — Milly Taiden

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away. — Stella Vine

Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say. — Marshall Thornton