Fiona Apple Quotes

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

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.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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

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

I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

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?'

When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

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.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

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