Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

I used to play with all the older guys. I never played with, really, my age group when I was younger.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

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.

I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

I work in an industry where most people are way below 50.

People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.