Amanda Peet 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.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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

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

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

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.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

I've finally become an old guy.

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

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

It makes me think—what am I going to be like when I'm 65?

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

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.

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.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.