Orson Welles Quotes

You can't be 16 forever.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

You can't be 25 all the time.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

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

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I have seen lot of ups and downs in life; I have realised that nothing is permanent in life.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.