Quotes About Adulthood

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.

They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.

Nuestra propia necesidad de amor, atención, cariño y seguridad quedó insatisfecha mientras fingíamos ser más poderosas y menos temerosas, más adultas y menos necesitadas, de lo que realmente nos sentíamos.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.