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If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I have reached a limit in my work.

Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.