Diminishing Opportunities Quotes

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

I just hope and pray that I never get threatened by younger actresses coming up behind me. I hope I won't, but you never know what's going to hit you.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day.

A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.