Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

You want to see women your own age in films.

I like all ladies of all different ages.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.

I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

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.