Age Stigma Quotes

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

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

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

I didn't want to do music. I was very doubtful. I was like, 'Oh my God. No one wants to hear a teen mom rapper.'

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.