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- Nov 07, 2020
Grown Man Quotes
What changes, and what still needs imagining.
These quotes wrestle with what it means to finally be a grown man — trading the backpack for something better, or watching a forty-year-old turn almost unrecognizable from his younger self.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020