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40th birthday Quote by Romola Garai

“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.” quote by Romola Garai — Download Open image

“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.”

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If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

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I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

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I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really…

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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

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The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

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It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have…

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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to…

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Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails,…

Pamela Druckerman

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Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the…

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So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a…

John Walter Bratton

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesnt show its age.

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Youre not 40, youre eighteen with 22 years experience.

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John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

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The I just woke up face of your 30s is the all day long face of your 40s

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