Age Appropriate Behavior Quotes

I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.

I am too childlike to be immature.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

Kid Congress and the Senate, don’t scold em. They are just children that’s never grown up. They don’t like to be corrected in company.

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

I think babies are a bit boring, actually. They're OK when they're older; they make you laugh. I think we all think that, really - we just don't say it.

My boys are wild. My daughter is wild.

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.