Lindsay Lohan Quotes

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

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?'

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

If you talk to a woman, she will give you at least five incidents in a day, 5-10 in a month, where she had to work harder to prove herself because she is a 'woman,' maybe at a male-dominated work place or when she has to come across as a smarter woman if she is good-looking.

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show.

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives.

I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.

I don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again.

R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!

I have never hidden my relationship and I have been called the worst names in the showbiz world.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.