Janet McTeer Quotes

Hindi cinema hasn't moved at all in terms of roles for actresses beyond 18 years.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

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

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

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

I'd like to do some female roles again.

Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

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.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

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

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'

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

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

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'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.

It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.

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?

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

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 figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.