When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I live in a really small apartment in London, and that's a choice. I live at The Carlyle in New York, but it's not big. It's about making choices of style over flashiness. People's style is subjective and mine happens to be around the classical because I feel comfortable with that, and because of my background. I'm probably living in the wrong time. I should have lived in the Thirties or the Fifties.
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30. " And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties. " I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!
They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.
In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.
Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.
There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.
In your thirties, you're much more comfortable with sex. First of all, sex is something you've done more. You know you can have sex just to have sex; you can have sex with friends; you can have sex with people you love; you can have sex with people you don't like, but the sex is good. And you can joke about sex much more.
