Carolina Herrera Quotes

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Live your life and forget your age.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

I don't think about my physical age.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

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

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.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.