Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

I prefer being around young people. I don't like situations from the past, definitely no nostalgia. I prefer to think of doing everything new with a different generation that has a different mentality.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

I was young myself and reliant on older players to make room for me.

I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.

In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be lost. One woman, a former Southern belle, now 87, a philanthropist, says, "Well, these young, their history's been stolen from them. And what have we done to make them respect us?"

There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting.

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

Somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them.

Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or slow it is. I got my grandkids up front rapping and doing the new thing. They're teaching each other, bringing us up to date.

When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really appreciate how right they were about so much.