Edward Norton Quotes

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?

Sorry your job prospects are so grim, but we are still not ready to admit that Reganomics failed., You’ll never be able to retire, but that’s probably for the best., Even in your darkest moments someone will be there for you … probably a creditor coming after your student loan debts. You can achieve anything if you work hard … That’s just a joke I tell my unpaid interns., You lazy millenials will work twice as much for half the pay my generation enjoyed. My stock portfolio really appreciates it.

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

My generation in Japan lived in limbo. We dreamed between two worlds.

Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

I'd be scared of hitting 60 and looking like a granny when the child's just in their teens. I'm happy I had my daughter when I was in my 30s.

Dating in the closet is torture. It's one of the most difficult things, especially if you are completely closeted.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

When it comes to the Democratic party, all you need to do is look at the ideology of Millennials.

I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has historically either taken for granted or ignored altogether.