Eleanor Catton Quotes

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

There is no age better than another.

I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it’s over.

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

There's nothing good about being my age.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.