Adult Role Quotes

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

To inspire children is my goal. Kids need adults to help them. Behind the success of a child is an adult.

Everything we do is based at adults.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

There's always got to be one adult in the band, I think.

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.