Age of Innocence Quotes

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We attempted to show that with flowers that start as sweet and then slowly become malevolent.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.