Emily Osment Quotes

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

Usually, I play people who are a lot younger than I am, because people think that I look really young, which I do.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.

For the beginning of my career, I was always playing people younger than me.

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger.

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

I look eight years older than everybody.

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

There are times I try to look older. And then there are times I look too young.

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.