Taylor Negron Quotes

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

I've always looked old for my age.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

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

Poppy does not identify with an age.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Young people are often portrayed in a very negative and stereotypical manner.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

Cameron called me a dinosaur you know? Well I'm the only dinosaur who can ride a bike 12 miles a day.

My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.