Jeanne Moreau Quotes

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Some feel old at 45.

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

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

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.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

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

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

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

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

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.'

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.