Peter Crouch Quotes

My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

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 don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

Ageism is something that does exist.

I've had statements made - 'Who in the heck wants to hear a 60-year-old singer?' That statement was made - it's disheartening, you know, because you say, 'Well, hey, why should a guy feel like that about it?'

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

I've got to be honest with you: I don't regard 29 as old.

I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.

We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.