Age-Related Stigma Quotes

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

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

Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old.

I put my name into the Google search bar. Justine Bateman... And the auto-complete comes up. The auto-complete says that the top option is, 'Justine Bateman looks old.'

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

People think you're 30 and think you're old. I hate that.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

That’s for old people.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.