Adults Quotes - Page 27

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.

Adults are the real monsters.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who the adult cast is without making them feel that the adults are the center of it? You don't want to make it misleading, but at the same time you want to make it appealing.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.