That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.
Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.
I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.
At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.
I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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