Agnes Bruckner Quotes

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.