Quotes About Adulthood

I always knew that adulthood didn't count; following puberty, all existence is but epilogue.

j'ai vingt trois ans et je n'ai encore rien trouvé de ce que je cherchais. C'est pour ça que la vie me plaît. il est bon à vingt trois ans de ne pas avoir découvert son chemin.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.

When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

That's all life is, I guess. Just a bunch of riffs. Look at me: I'm wearing a tie. Why am I wearing a tie? It's because I saw an adult wear a tie and I thought, Oh, that's what people do. We're all just trying to be what an adult is.

I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

Even at weddings, I'm quite often put on the children's table, even though I'm very much a full adult.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

I feel sometimes as though I've never grown up. And that's great, because it means there are still possibilities. Nothing's free. You pay for whatever you get. But that's OK, because you can't be cheated.

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.