Ben Barnes Quotes

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

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.

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

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

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I wrapped 'Buffy' and I always felt on 'Buffy' that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.

When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

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 find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.