Casey Stengel Quotes

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

If someone is going to give me a job looking younger than I am, I'm not going to turn it down. There are worst problems to have.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over forty who need work are finding themselves. …. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should exist for at forty a man or woman should be at their best and have experience and poise and patience all of which should make meeting certain problems of work easier.

In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

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

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'