Age-Based Prejudice Quotes

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

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

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

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

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.

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough?

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

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'

I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

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

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