Juliette Binoche Quotes

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

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

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I think women are so much more interesting and sexy in their 30s and 40s.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

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.

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

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

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

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.