40s Quotes - page 3

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. (Alejandro Amenabar)
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother. View quote
Dana Delany
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines. View quote
Christian Lacroix
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s. View quote
Taylor Lautner
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like. View quote
Parker Posey
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life? View quote
Rudy Vallee
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. View quote
Pete Townshend
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. View quote
Harvey Pekar
I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore. View quote
Lisa Edelstein
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past. View quote
Alan Furst
When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and thats definitely reassuring. (Alex Lifeson)
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules. View quote
Anne Roiphe
It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. View quote
Charlie Haden
My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive. View quote
Chili Davis
Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. View quote
Connie Nielsen
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. View quote
Carla Bley
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. View quote
Debra Winger
But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry. View quote
Debra Winger
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s. View quote
Francesca Annis
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. View quote
Graeme Murphy
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email. (Garrett Hedlund)
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing. View quote
Jamie Chung
For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s. View quote
Jane Kaczmarek
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. View quote
Jane Pauley