In Your 30s Quotes

#1. Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Eva Mendes

#2. In your 20s, you feel like you're indestructible ... In your 30s, you think ... I'll be around here a little longer, so I'm going to take better care of myself.

John Belushi

#3. You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

Sandra Bernhard

#5. In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

Paul Rust

#6. You know what, it's a time honored tradition in movies in America that if you kill enough people in your 30s and 40s and 50s that by the time you get into your 60s you become loveable.

M. C. Gainey

#7. In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.

Frank Perdue

#8. When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Bridget Moynahan

#9. I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Joni Mitchell

#11. You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

Helen Hunt

#12. 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.

Alex Trebek

#13. Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

Solange Knowles

#14. When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

Ben Affleck

#15. Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

Michael Mina

#16. I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

Jessica Marais

#17. When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

Drew Bledsoe

#18. I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

Michel Gondry

#19. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

Facundo Pieres

#20. I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

Natalie Imbruglia

#21. If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

Rob McElhenney

#22. If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.

Richard Preston

#23. I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.

Sam Yagan

#24. The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Alan Moore

#25. For me, my 50s was the decade when my tolerance for heels faded. I'm in good shape and, at 8 st. 3 lb., I'm still the same weight I was in my 30s, but as you get older, the weight of your body shifts somehow.

Marie Helvin

#26. It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

Staceyann Chin

#27. If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

Salma Hayek

#28. I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

Tim Conway

#29. Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

Michael Douglas

#30. I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

Tom Berenger

#31. In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.

Jenny Lewis

#32. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

Michelle M. Pillow

#33. Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Martin Scorsese

#34. I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

Helen Mirren

#35. In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

Joan Blondell

#36. When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Garrison Keillor

#37. In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise

Tom Hanks

#38. The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

Jill Scott