I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.
The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
Politics is a lot tougher than physics.
Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It's not like that, though. I'm tougher than that.
I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.
Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball.
If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.