Quotes About Ageism

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? "You're too young." Most of history was built by young people. They just got credit when they were older.

I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

There's some truth that roles for older women are harder to come by, but it's wrong for actors to monopolise the ageist thing.

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

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is "you don't even exist." You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you're well qualified for and you'll probably never hear back from the employer.

I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.

Once a female actor is 35 or 38, her utility as an object of sexuality is considered to be over. However, summer romances arent the only kind of films that can be made.

The truth is, Silicon Valley doesn't like people who are older, and they're not that much of a friend of the woman. I certainly was a woman, and I was older.

When I turned 50, I truly felt I was too old to work in Silicon Valley. No one said anything to my face, but when you can be the mother of some of the people you're interviewing with, that says it all.

In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

You... are not a very nice old man!!!

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

I put my name into the Google search bar. Justine Bateman... And the auto-complete comes up. The auto-complete says that the top option is, 'Justine Bateman looks old.'