Dawson Casting/Quotes

Lizzie: "Wow, Miranda's getting good! Maybe when she's thirty years old she can play a teenager on Dawson's Creek."

She's running away from home and she's only thirty!

—Butt-Head, commenting on the music video for Pat Benatar's Love is a Battlefield

Kent Brockman: Let's have a warm welcome for the stars of the popular teen soap opera, Springfield Heights 90210! He's cool, he's sexy, he's 34 years old! Say hello to Kyle Darren! (Darren smiles, obvious wrinkles show on his face)

—The Simpsons, "Marge vs. The Monorail"

These guys probably had sons the same age as their characters.

—Mike Nelson commenting on the "teenagers" of Reefer Madness

(deep voice) I'm 15, really."

—"Robin", Riff Trax of Batman Forever

I don't think anyone in the casting department has ever seen a real teenager.

—Linkara on Power Rangers

Principal: You're already repeating your senior year.

Obscurus Lupa: How many times, eight?

—Obscurus Lupa Presents: Sleepy Hollow High

...there's no real age limit, although we cast age-appropriate

(meaning that an actor needs to be roughly the same age as the character he/she plays).

—Stephen Stohn via Twitter, describing a famous subversion.

"Well, that depends. Do you believe two obvious 30-year-olds trying to play high school students is for real?"

—The Nostalgia Critic, in his review of The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia