Age-Based Stereotypes Quotes

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

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

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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 don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

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

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

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

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.

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

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

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 don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don't think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

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.

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

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

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

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

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.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.