Zendaya Quotes

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.

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

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.