Alan Ball Quotes

I'm not a big fan of young people.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

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 like my whisky old and my women young.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I'm not of this generation.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.