Ross MacDonald Quotes

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

In my experience, there is a very good reason why a good-looking young woman of around 20 is willing to go out with a man over 15 years her senior - she's nuts.

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

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.

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 suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.