I keep getting older and they stay the same age

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I keep getting older and they stay the same age

Source: Dazed and Confused

Speaker: David Wooderson

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Context

This line is spoken by David Wooderson, played by Matthew McConaughey, in the movie Dazed and Confused, directed by Richard Linklater (1993).

A '90s movie about the '70s, Dazed and Confused paints a hazy picture of a bunch of high school kids in Texas trying to get lucky, drunk, or stoned on the last day of school. This loveably creepy line is spoken by Wooderson, played by a fresh-faced Matthew McConaughey, who's way too old to be checking out "the freshman chicks" walking by. Who knew a line about lechery could help make an actor's career?

All right, all right, all right…click here for the clip.

Where you've heard it

Brian of Family Guy does his best McConaughey while standing in front of a bowling alley, dressed as Wooderson and scoping out the teenage girls walking by. Hmm…is it more or less creepy when a cartoon dog says it? Watch the clip and be the judge.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

I keep getting older and they stay the same age

Doing your best Wooderson isn't pretentious, but it might get you arrested.


I keep getting older and they stay the same age

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Quotes 

  • Wooderson : All right, all right, all right.

  • Wooderson : That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

  • Wooderson : Say, man, you got a joint?

    Mitch : No, not on me, man.

    Wooderson : It'd be a lot cooler if you diid.

  • Wooderson : Man, it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. If it ain't that piece of paper, there's some other choice they're gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall Pink Floyd wants to do man. Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N.

  • Wooderson : I love those redheads!

  • Wooderson : Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some fuckin' muscle.

  • Wooderson : Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. But that's all right, we'll worry about that later. I will see you there. All right?

  • Wooderson : Aerosmith, 2 weeks. Don't forget.

    [slaps her ass] 

    Cynthia : I won't.

  • Pink : Have you seen Jodi around?

    Wooderson : No she left your ass.

    Pink : Well you win some you lose some.

  • Wooderson : Cynthia, man? I like it, man.

    Pink : Red's a good color for you.

    Wooderson : My favorite color.

  • Wooderson : Say, you need a ride?

    Cynthia : I got my own ride. Thanks.

    Wooderson : Yeah you know. Because you oughta dump those two geeks you got in the car with you and ride with us but that's okay. I'll see you there.

    Cynthia : Okay.

    [smiles as Wooderson drives off] 

    Mike : Oh man! What a dick!

    Tony : [sees Cynthia smiling]  What are you smiling at?

    Cynthia : I thought he was cute.

    Mike : What? Do you realize when he graduated high school, we were like three years old?


Who said I keep getting older and they stay the same age?

This line is spoken by David Wooderson, played by Matthew McConaughey, in the movie Dazed and Confused, directed by Richard Linklater (1993).

What is Matthew McConaughey's famous line from Dazed and Confused?

McConaughey, 53, made the phrase “all right, all right, all right” famous when he starred as David Wooderson in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. Since then, the Oscar winner has used the fan favorite line during acceptance speeches at major awards shows and in interviews here and there.

What is the famous line in Dazed and Confused?

Full Quote: Mitch Kramer responds, "Uh, no, not on me, man." Wooderson smiles and says back, "It'd be a lot cooler if you did." It's a line that's reverberated through generations of high school stoners and die-hard Matthew McConaughey fans since its first utterance.

What movie did Matthew McConaughey say alright lyrics?

"Alright, alright, alright" isn't new, though. McConaughey's been rocking that catchphrase since portraying the David Wooderson character in the coming of age film Dazed And Confused in 1993.