Penelope Cruz Quotes

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

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

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

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

I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

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

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

Age affects us all in the workplace. We all get a little less appealing as we get older, unfortunately.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.