Denzel Washington Quotes

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

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

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

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

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

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

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'

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.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.