Age Stereotyping Quotes

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

With my face, everybody always thinks I'm so young, this little guy.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

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.

When you hit 40, you suddenly find that they are looking at younger actresses.

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!

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

Once you get into your 40s, you're no longer leading-lady age. Generally, those roles get offered to women in their 20s and 30s.

'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.