Goldie Hawn Quotes

We in middle age require adventure.

I did have a midlife crisis.

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

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

I have to reinvent myself.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

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

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?'

Just having that time alone, away from the team, just going through the progression of being healthy again with the brain work that I was doing in the hospital and building that company, all I could do is think and it just dawned on me that, hey, it's time for the next chapter of my life. I need to walk away and try something else.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

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

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

I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.