Norma Shearer Quotes

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

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

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.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

Young people are often portrayed in a very negative and stereotypical manner.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

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