Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I feel old.

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.

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

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I don't want to be 25 again.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

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

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

Turns out I'm getting old.