In recent weeks during interviews to promote new projects Bullet Train and the six-part HBO Max docuseries The Last Movie Stars, Brad Pitt, 58, and Ethan Hawke, 51, have both expressed feelings of being in the twilight of their acting careers, or at least the third act. “I consider myself on my last leg” Pitt told GQ; while Hawke opined to IndieWire that he’s at “the beginning of my last act” as an actor.

Hawke and Pitt don’t have to look far to find actors and filmmakers who’ve seen their careers flourish, and even go in new directions, after 50. As director Ridley Scott, 84, once told me for Variety, “Experience does frequently work. I was always amused that people retire at 60. At 60 you know everything. I’m way past my 60s and I’m chugging along doing the best work I’ve done in my life. That’s why I look at Clint Eastwood as the way to go.”

No offense to recent AARP-age members Pitt and Hawke, but here are 10 big talents who continue to inspire well into their membership years. Don’t quit your day jobs, fellas.