Words matter. These are the best Grown-Ups Quotes from famous people such as Macaulay Culkin, John Burnside, Shawn Levy, Dav Pilkey, Michael Leunig, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Oh wow, you know what’s wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I’d make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.’ Forget it.
As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral – which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white… They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there’s nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what’s going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
Recently, our cable went out. Without the TV, children are forced to draw and read; grown-ups are forced to talk to their wives. I call it a psychic pacifier: It washes over you. It helps you avoid reality.
We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.
My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still bring a huge sense of love and magic, so for that I’m really grateful.
My mum told me that grown-ups don’t like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
Grown-ups yell. I don’t know why, but they do.
You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about – the dark power of adulthood. It’s not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It’s a story about the end of childhood.
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
It’s very important to take care of yourself. Everyone’s lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it’s a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.
I’d like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I’m like a teenager. I’d have ‘Teen Beat’ if I could, for grown-ups.
Serious films for grown-ups – ‘Michael Clayton,’ ‘In the Valley of Elah,’ ‘A Mighty Heart’ – these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.
‘Monuments Men’ is a movie… I don’t want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you’re expecting ‘Transformers,’ you’re going to be disappointed.
The kids all knew me from Wayne’s World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents’ legs, but you don’t see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn’t happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.
That’s the whole reason I got into acting: I don’t do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and they have to make money. It’s not my job. My dad works to support our family. So I just do it for fun.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
‘Logan Lucky’ is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?
The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer.
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they’re designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
It took me a lot of years on the ‘Burnett’ show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
I think grown-ups don’t go to movies because they’re much more discerning.
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
