Barbi Benton Quotes

There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She still looks 12.' I'm like, 'I'm 22. What do you mean I don't look 16?' So I'm comfortable just rocking my young body.

It's only an advantage as an actor - looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

I really don't think you need to be 40 and have three kids and have a body of an 18-year-old.

With my face, everybody always thinks I'm so young, this little guy.

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

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.

People feel I look younger than my age. I don't feel that way.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

'Pin' was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

I just want to be fit because I want to look nice without a shirt.

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

Being lean doesn't make you any more worthy, any more beautiful or any more valuable. It doesn't make you a more fit person, it doesn't mean you've worked harder in the gym, people who are leaner than you aren't better than you.

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.

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.