Michael Foreman Quotes

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

A 75-year-old man doesn't need maternity leave or maternity care. A young person doesn't need geriatric care.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

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.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

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

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

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.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

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.