Deborah Moggach Quotes

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

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

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

Some feel old at 45.

Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.

I always think there's our age in ID terms but then there's our real age because for me the real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. The real age, the real ID is your body, your brain, your attitude.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

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

I don't think about my physical age.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life!

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.

We are always the same age inside.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

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

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.