Maye Musk Quotes

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

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

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

I'm no pin-up.

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

I've always looked old for my age.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.