Sarah Lancashire Quotes

I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over forty who need work are finding themselves. …. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should exist for at forty a man or woman should be at their best and have experience and poise and patience all of which should make meeting certain problems of work easier.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.

For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.

When I turned 50, I truly felt I was too old to work in Silicon Valley. No one said anything to my face, but when you can be the mother of some of the people you're interviewing with, that says it all.

I work in an industry where most people are way below 50.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.