Julie Christie Quotes

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

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.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

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

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

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

When you hit 40, you suddenly find that they are looking at younger actresses.