Greta Scacchi Quotes

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

In your 20s, you are worried about body issues, your weight, how you are dressed. In your 30s, you're like, 'Oh my God, I am getting old. I am going to enjoy everything.'

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

Getting older is hard.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

Some feel old at 45.