Kate Walsh Quotes

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

It's hard to get older as an actress. You see a lot of people, especially in L.A., chasing youth.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.

I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

Some people in our business want to play young as long as you can. I just wasn't interested in being a 30-year-old playing a teenager.