Maye Musk Quotes

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

I would model when they wanted me, and as I got older, they wanted an older model. I was quite willing to be mother of the bride at 28. I was quite happy to be on the cover of a grandparents' magazine at 42; I have no ego about that.

Age is not a factor when it comes to choosing the kind of roles you want to portray or the kind of clothes you wear for a role on-screen.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

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

Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!