Bianca Balti Quotes

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

I won't play a teenager.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

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

The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

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

We know it's a young man's game.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.

You can't put an age on power.

I do have a lot to learn, and I think that has a big factor in everything. Being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.