Miuccia Prada Quotes

I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

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

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

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

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

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't.

If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

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.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

I've had statements made - 'Who in the heck wants to hear a 60-year-old singer?' That statement was made - it's disheartening, you know, because you say, 'Well, hey, why should a guy feel like that about it?'

People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.