5 Movie Quotes about Middle Age (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about middle age, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Any middle-aged bachelor who has never desired the basic rewards of wife and family, and occupies the major portion of his life making one conquest after another, is trying to prove something he can never possibly prove. -What's that? -That he's a man.

Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala in The Pink Panther (1963)

2 And I was hoping that you were looking for an emotional involvement with a craggy middle-aged man. -Oh, I wouldn't rule that out entirely.

William Holden as Max Schumacher; Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

3 Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood and a terrified young woman with a father complex.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

4 Every time you come back from seeing somebody in your family, you come back in one of these morbid, middle-aged moods!

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

5 I don't like the way this script of ours is turning out. It's turning into a seedy little drama. Middle-aged man leaves wife and family for young heartless woman, goes to pot. The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings. I don't like it.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)