George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

That’s for old people.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

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.'

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

I don't care about age very much.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

To assume that just because of someone's age or gender or whatever, that they don't pose a threat would be wrong.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

I am definitely not sitting down with Jason Whitlock because I don't think he is willing to learn. He is fat and 50. There ain't no changing the mind of a fat, 50-year-old person.