Joan Chen Quotes

There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all shapes and sizes, age, ethnic background should be embraced and celebrated.

You never play age, you play character.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

The human race is divided horizontally by age, vertically by sex and diagonally by race

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

It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists.

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

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

Whether you're old or young or white or black or however, funny is funny, and people want to see those videos.

I don't know who it is, probably some geek - said that when a female gets to a certain age, all her sexuality goes. She's not a vital person anymore. If you're somebody's mother you're not vital. This is such crap, because you're still a person. You still have all the things that you came into childbearing with and all that kind of stuff.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story?