Quotes About Adulthood

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

Going to school is cool, being accountable is cool, being responsible is cool. Those things are the cool things to do.

If you raise a cool adult, that's an achievement.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I think I am an adult.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.

Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

It's hard to believe that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. They don't have anything at all in common. But I guess it's just as strange that a kid turns into an adult. I never want to be like a grown-up. They don't have much fun. Greta and I are planning to live next door to each other when we grow up, and raise horses and dogs and keep a few cats. I guess we'll have to marry men who like animals.

For mysterious reasons, many authors consider it useful to provide a story about a forty-year-old man-about-town with a prologue drawn from his life as a five-year-old boy. ... There's only one letter's difference between "yarn" and "yawn," and it is often a long letter, filled with childhood memories.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable. Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… Mais toi tu vis continuellement une fable et tu ne t'en aperçois plus. Lorsqu'un adulte entre dans le monde des fables, il ne peut plus en sortir. Le savais-tu?

Ma tu vivi continuamente nelle favole, solamente non te ne accorgi più. Quando un adulto entra nel mondo delle fiabe non riesce più ad uscirne. Non lo sapevi?

That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.

This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and are launched in one fell swoop into the rest of your life. It's suddenly up to you, and not your tutors or your parents.