Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

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

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

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.

I used to love getting older.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

You can't be 16 forever.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

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

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

When you're 14 and you're with your friends, you laugh about really stupid stuff, but as you get older, the laughter inside you dies. When you're older, you need a bit of help.