It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

- J. K. Simmons

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

- Kit Harington

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

- Steve Coogan