Greta Scacchi Quotes

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

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

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther, either.

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

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.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

For any female actor, the age between 35 to 45 is treacherous. Filmmakers tell me, I am at that awkward age. No parts are written for women in this age bracket, while men at that age flourish and have great careers.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.