Ian Beattie Quotes

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I used to love getting older.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

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

You can't be 16 forever.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?