Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I've often been told that I'm a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. I don't know how I feel about that, but I'll take it, I guess. I'm definitely mature, and I'm the one that takes care of everyone in my friendship group.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

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

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.