Raquel Welch 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.'

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.

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.

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 you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

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

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

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.

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

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

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

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

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

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

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.