Debi Mazar Quotes

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

I believe that life begins at 50.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.