Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.