Arrested Development Quotes

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

I was born 10 years old.

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.

I never grew up.

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well-oiled machine. 'Cause it was the last season, and they were wrapping up a lot of stuff because they knew at that point that they weren't coming back. There seemed to be kind of a freedom, and certainly the cast had a great amount of camaraderie.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

I love Jason Bateman. He's so funny.

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.