Julianne Moore Quotes

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.