Julie Christie Quotes

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

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

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.

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

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

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.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

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.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

I've aged, but grown up? No.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

I did have a midlife crisis.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

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