Adam Cohen Quotes

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

Ageism is something that does exist.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!