Anthony Horowitz Quotes

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

I'm an older generation.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

At the end of the day, I connect very closely with the youth. I love the youth. I love the young people.

It feels great to know that someone from the younger generation is following me.

I've been around older guys most of my life; I feel like that's definitely an advantage for me.

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

My grandfather was like a father figure to me.