Top 30 Older Woman Quotes

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It’s about an older woman who‘s running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

You can call me an older woman – I don’t mind that at all – just don’t call me an old one, because I’m not.

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, ‘For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.’ So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

I think falling in love with an older woman is not abnormal. It happens a lot in our society, but it’s just that it is not accepted with open arms.

It doesn’t surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.

I think every major character I’ve played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I’m mature for my age.

It’s hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself – I do continue to struggle with that as an older woman in the workplace.

I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don’t see work as closing down as an older woman.

I’ve always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

The British boys really, really go nuts… to them, an older woman is sexy, and it’s an incredible fantasy… I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don’t feel as in control of their lives.

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60… So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

My very first show that I ever did was a show called ‘Then Came You’. It became a huge hit – no, it didn’t. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman’s best friend. I was 27 years old.

I had an affair with an older woman when I was at college, and she was a strong feminist, which shaped my view of women. I learned that they could call the shots, which was fine with me.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn’t have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn’t go any farther.

When somebody mentioned yoga for the first time, I just looked at it and thought, ‘This isn’t for me; it’s for an older woman down at the health club trying to get supple.’ But I thought, ‘No, I can see the benefits there. I’ve got to embrace it.’

If you put a much older woman in ‘Doctor Who,’ they can identify with it. I think it’s quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like ‘Grimm’s Fairytales,’ the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure – why I do not know, but often she is. I think it’s an idea to be exploited.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

Maybe I’m a better actor when I know there’s going to be an older woman involved.

I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.

I’m an older woman who’s not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that’s sad. It’s a shame it’s so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

To play an older woman, ’til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it’s different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

If someone called and the role was good and there was dignity and integrity in the piece, I’d be up for it, of course I would. It’s so hard for older women in acting so when you hear of an older woman having a renaissance in their career, I really applaud it.

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn’t give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he’s confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

As an older woman now, I feel the pressure more, I feel all those different aspects, I’m more aware of that. Whereas as a 13-year-old, as a 17-year-old, you just do swimming, you’re just doing it as sport where you don’t really think of all the outside bits.

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?