Age Positive Quotes

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I'm anti-ageism in the arts.

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

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

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

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

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.