Victoria Hamilton Quotes

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor.

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

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

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 believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.