Gillian Flynn Quotes

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

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.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

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.

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

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

I had to figure out at 61 years of age: 'Holy moly! Who am I?'

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

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

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.

If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity