Michael Patrick King Quotes

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

One should mature over 20 years.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Some age, others mature.

You can't be 16 forever.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.