Quotes About Adulthood

Look, that rookie year you got a lot going on. You got to get a house, you got to get a car, you have to move to a whole new city. I mean, there are so many things that are going on.

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

You have to be a bit ruthless, to be ultra-focused all the time. At the end of the day we're not playing kids football, we have to learn ourselves and go out with full focus and be men, to take it on.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

I was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

I was scared of everything growing up. I still don't like scary movies.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

When I was younger, I grew up a Packers fan because my dad played for the Packers. As I got older, I've fallen away from it.

My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

I started driving when I was really young, at the age of 15-16. It just came naturally to me because I learnt it on my own by observing others. Of course, I was never allowed to drive until I was 18, but I would park my parents' car at every given opportunity.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.