Michelle Trachtenberg Quotes

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I put my name into the Google search bar. Justine Bateman... And the auto-complete comes up. The auto-complete says that the top option is, 'Justine Bateman looks old.'

When you're the older guy, everybody talks about you. When you win, everybody talks about you. When you lose, everybody talks about you.

I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

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.'

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

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

I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal.