Betty Gilpin Quotes

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

Is television a lookist industry? Of course it is.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Hollywood is hard on women.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

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.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.