Michael Leunig Quotes

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

I don't think I'm my age. I'm truly 6 years old.

As a young man, I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

When you live the life of a comedian, it's such a state of arrested development. I can't deal with anything very maturely. I'm still really bad at paying bills or doing anything that would be considered semi-adult. I'm really bad at it. It's weird I can create and run a TV show, but I can't pay my phone bill.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

I act much younger than I am.

Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.