Miriam Shor Quotes

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

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

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.

For female wrestlers, it's always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem to reach those age limits more quickly.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

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

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

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

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

Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.

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

You get the older version of women that you've played before.