David Morse Quotes

I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.

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

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

I'm not a big fan of young people.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

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

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

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?

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

Some people think that I must be ancient because I've been in the business for so long, others still think of me as a waif and assume that I'm too young for certain roles. Starting out at such an early age seems to have worked against me.

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.