Carol Leifer Quotes

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

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?

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

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

Some feel old at 45.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing.

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!

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

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

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

I'm getting older, turning 40 this year. I had a period where I thought each expedition had to be something harder, something faster. But you can't go on like that, or you're going to die.

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just because I didn't know that many men who had lived beyond their 20s.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.