Matthew Mercer Quotes

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

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

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

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

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

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

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

You can't be 16 forever.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

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

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.