There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Goldie Hawn’s quip satirizes Hollywood’s narrow, age-stratified casting of women. “Babe” evokes the youthful ingénue valued primarily for attractiveness; “District Attorney” suggests the midlife professional role often used to signal competence without sexuality; and “Driving Miss Daisy” (a shorthand for elderly, dependent, or “grandmotherly” parts) points to the scarcity of complex roles for older women. The joke’s bite comes from compressing a woman’s entire career into three reductive archetypes, implying that the industry’s imagination—and opportunities—shrinks as actresses age. It functions as both insider commentary and feminist critique of systemic ageism and sexism in screen storytelling.