Terry Pratchett Quotes

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

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

What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Ageism is something that does exist.

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.'

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

So many people put older women out to pasture.

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

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

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

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!

I think people don't give young women enough credit, really.

I'm Asian, and I'm an actress, and I've been doing this since I was a teenager, so if anyone understands the conversation about misrepresentation and underrepresentation, it's me. I live and breathe it; this is my life.

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.