Julie Wainwright Quotes

I'm not a big fan of young people.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

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

Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

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

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.'

Age affects us all in the workplace. We all get a little less appealing as we get older, unfortunately.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

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

Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

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

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

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

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.

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?

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.