Adam Conover Quotes

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

That’s for old people.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.