Daniel Petrie Quotes

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.

Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

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.

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

I'm anti-ageism in the arts.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.