Grownups Quotations

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

Children want to do what grownups do.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

But I'm still interested in grownups struggling to make their lives better. I'm certainly not interested in seeing situations that I've already seen on TV shows.

There are poets and there are grownups.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.