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"It's a long, long time from May to December."
— "September Song" by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson

Red: You were dating Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress?
Hap: Yeah, it was one off those May-December things.
Red: December of what year?

David: Lex Luthor’s spent the past five years building model trains!
Chris: We should be glad that he had some kind of hobby to take his mind off of earning his keep by getting tantric with an octogenarian. Oh, Lex. You don’t have to put on the red light.
David: Yeah, Lex Luthor seriously did prostitute him for a boat, didn’t he? That happened?
Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Superman Returns

"The 'old guy beds young thing' trend I find fairly repellent. It's like watching a decrepit yak try to make love to a butterfly."
Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese

"For those of you who are bad at math, that means someone thought an age gap of 18 years wasn’t large enough. Is Hollywood run by gross old men who are taking advice from barely-legal gold diggers? Wait, don’t answer that."
DListed, "'Yes? And?' thought Hollywood, before it called up an airbrushed picture of an unborn fetus and informed it that they got the part as Johnny Depp’s girlfriend"

"Stephen and Elliot have been a thing since this past summer, which means they've heard a server say, 'And what would your grandson like, sir? The kid’s menu is on the back' at least a dozen times."
Michael K., "57-Year-Old Stephen Fry Is Engaged To His 27-Year-Old Piece"

"She is half your age
But I'm guessing that's the reason that you've stayed."
Adele, "Rumour Has It"

Maybe when I turn sixty, I can say "My future wife is being born somewhere..."
Patton Oswalt on Hugh Hefner's engagement to adult model Crystal Harris, 60 years his junior.

Gert: We have a May-December Romance.
Alvin: Yeah — we May, sometime, in December!
Mama's Family, "Aunt Gert Rides Again"

Paris: (...) You can just call him Asher.
Rory: No, he's my teacher, so I think I'll stick with professor.
Paris: Professor just makes him sound old.
Rory: He IS old!
Paris: He's sixty. Today's sixty is what fifty was twenty years ago and he's got the body of a forty-year-old.
Rory: I really don't want to talk about his body.
Paris: I'm not denying that we've got a May-December romance going on here.
Rory: This is not May-December, this is May - Ming Dynasty.
Paris: An age difference like this is very common. People dating people the same age are passe now.
Rory: My grandfather introduced you to him. Do you see how awkward this is for me?
Gilmore Girls, "Family Matter"

"[...] Physically I was okay but facially I started looking... well, the leading ladies were young enough to be my grand-daughter and it becomes disgusting."
Roger Moore, explaining why he stepped down from playing James Bond

Barry Allen: Wonder Woman! What do you think, man? You think she'd ever go for a younger guy?
Victor Stone: She's 5000 years old, Barry. Every guy's a younger guy.

"How romantic it is, Daemon, for you to reminisce about the times you spent with your wife when she was a child and you old enough to be her father. Truly the stuff of songs!"


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