Age Disadvantage Quotes

The character - character - of Mallory on 'Family Ties' was a year younger than me. A fictitious year younger than me. So, I am not 21. I am not getting into the club. Boom.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my age.

The 'Tough Man' contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn't know how to fight.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.

Jose Aldo became champion when he was 22. I didn't get into the gym for the first time until I was 22.

I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.

For the beginning of my career, I was always playing people younger than me.

I looked around and saw my competitors: they're all doing these quads, and at the same time, they're a head shorter than me, they're 10 years younger than me, and they're the size of one of my legs.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

I didn't get started until late. I didn't get started until I was 20. I turned 21 in my first MLS season, in March. It's always been a race against time, really, for me. It's kind of my mentality, to make up for lost time.

Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

I was really just too small for football.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

I was nineteen when I signed and then worked with three managers and just didn't play that much.