Winona Ryder Quotes

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

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

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.

It's hard to get older as an actress. You see a lot of people, especially in L.A., chasing youth.

God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.