Forty Quote by Mickey Rooney

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted…

— Mickey Rooney

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

— Mickey Rooney

I started working since I was four years old. All I remember is I wanted to become a star.

— Sridevi

I was not a star when I was 18 or 19 years old.

— Maria Sakkari

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.

— Jose Feliciano

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about…

— Jennifer Connelly

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

— Dixie Carter

I was a very ambitious, young actor, grateful and getting out there, working hard. I was single-minded in pursuit of my career. I am…

— LaChanze

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

— Olga Korbut

When I was in my 20s I was told by an older actress, 'You won't get decent jobs past the age of 40.' When…

— Amanda Redman

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer.…

— Pearl S. Buck