David LaChapelle Quotes

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I pointed out that men, society looks at aging men and say they get more distinguished; some say they get more handsome, more authoritative, and so forth. I said it's unfair. It's the way it works. It's sadly not that was the when women age. Sadly.

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

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

It's true as a woman, particularly: the older you get, the parts get thinner on the ground and not quite as interesting, that's for sure.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.