Dani Alves Quotes

People think you're 30 and think you're old. I hate that.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

Ageism is something that does exist.

Some people think that I must be ancient because I've been in the business for so long, others still think of me as a waif and assume that I'm too young for certain roles. Starting out at such an early age seems to have worked against me.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

When you hit 40, you suddenly find that they are looking at younger actresses.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

I play so young because of my looks.

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

That’s for old people.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.