Youth quotes

“- Anna: I could do your make-up myself.
- Madeline Ashton: Make-up is pointless! It does nothing anymore! Are you even listening to me? Do you even care? You stand there with your 22-year-old skin and your tits like rocks and laugh at me.”
Michelle Johnson - Anna
Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton

“You were never my age, none of ya! And the sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you'll dig us!”

Tony Mordente - Action

Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated: "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever”.
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“- Brendan: I won't waste your time: you don't know me.
- Laura: I know everyone, and I have all the time in the world.
- Brendan: Ah, the folly of youth.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Brendan
Nora Zehetner - Laura

“When you're 12, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment, Teeny filled my heart with hope and comfort.”
Demi Moore - Samantha

“- Dickie Roberts: When I was your age, I did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
- Sally Finney: See, that might be why you're such a mess now.”
David Spade - Dickie Roberts
Jenna Boyd - Sally Finney

“High School is no place for kids anymore.”
Victor Garber - Det. Martin Van Zandt

“- Sylvie's Mom: Kids are so adaptable.
- Richard Swersey: They have absolutely no control over their lives.”
Colette Kilroy - Sylvie's Mom
John Hawkes - Richard Swersey

“- Strickland: Is that liquor I smell Tannen?
- Biff Tannen: Ahhh, I wouldn't know. I don't know what liquor smells like, because I'm too young to drink it.”
James Tolkan - Strickland
Thomas F. Wilson - Biff Tannen

“A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.”
Charles Bickford - Slim

“He was just a kid who made a mistake and got sent to reform school. They made a criminal out of him.”

Ann Sheridan - Laury Martin

I'll never forget what my Uncle Moe said about little girls. He said, "officer, she said she was 18!".
Billy Crystal - Buddy Young Jr.

“When I was a young boy I used to look at pictures of naked ladies, hence my right hand is very strong. I touched myself more than a third base coach.”
Christopher Walken - Jack Menken

“- Kristy: And, how old were you when you met?
- Grant Anderson: She was 18.
- Kristy: Holy! That's pretty young to get married, eh?
- Grant Anderson: Wasn't my idea.”

Kristen Thomson - Kristy
Gordon Pinsent - Grant Anderson

“To whom it may concern. I, being of sound mind but broken spirit have decided to take my own life. There is no one to blame but a society that has pushed its youth too hard and too fast without ever giving them a parachute if they fail.”

Matthew Lillard - Tim

“Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?”
Tom Cruise - David Aames

“- Doctor Sid: Stay away from your friend the Captain. You save his life, he saves yours, one thing leads to another... I was young once too.
- Doctor Aki Ross: Doctor, there's a war going on. Nobody's young anymore.”
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross

“I may be young, but I'm not dumb.”
Mackenzie Astin - Will Stoneman

“- Scotty: My sister's youngest, Admiral. Crazy to get to space.
- James T. Kirk: Every young man's fantasy. Seem to remember it myself.”
James Doohan - Scotty
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“I don't know how to be a wife. I'm only 13.”
Winona Ryder - Myra Gale Brown

“- Mother: Where you been?
- Jimmy: Fell asleep on the train and ended up in bloody Neasden.
- Mother: Ridin' about on them motorbikes all night, I'm not surprised. It's not normal.
- Jimmy: Oh, yeah? What's normal, then?”
Kate Williams - Mother
Phil Daniels - Jimmy

“- Colleen Douglas, State Pagent: Look at that one there. I think that she's had a boob job.
- Terry Macy, State Pagent: Oh, come on. She's too young for a boob job.
- Colleen Douglas, State Pagent: They do that at birth now, what are you talking about?”
Nora Dunn - Colleen Douglas, State Pagent
Mo Gaffney - Terry Macy, State Pagent

“I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch

Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional". Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category. I wish we were yuppies. Young, upwardly mobile, professional. Those are good things, not bad things.
Chris Eigeman - Des

“- Rat: What's the worst part about being old, Alvin?
- Alvin Straight: Well, the worst part of being old is rememberin' when you was young.”
Bill McCallum - Rat
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin