Laura Fraser Quotes

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

At some point I got sick of people calling me Bonzo junior. But now that I'm older and wiser, I'm just honored to be mentioned in the same breath.

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.