327 Quotes About Adults

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.