Age Barriers Quotes

Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

When I turned 30, the first question I got was, 'How much longer do you want to play?' And I don't see why that can't be when you turn 40. I really don't.

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.

To me the central premise is about friendships within people of different generations when you take out the idea how age creates a barrier - to me, that's what the show is about at it's core.

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.

It's difficult when you're young and you're not playing for your club.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes.

I don't fit into the age, race, or class of a bestselling poet.

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.