Janeane Garofalo Quotes

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.

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

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

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

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

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.

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

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

I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

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.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

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

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.