Larry Gelbart Quotes

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

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

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

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

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

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?'

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

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

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.

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

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.