John Thorn Quotes

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I feel like you're only young once.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

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

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.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.