Johnny Flynn Quotes

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.

I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I'm actually excited about turning 60. I feel on top of my game.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

I've been sexy for a while. Ever since I crossed 30, women have started taking me seriously.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.