Anthony Marra Quotes

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

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 think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I'm 18 and I like it!

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

You can't be 16 forever.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

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.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

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.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.