Quotes About Adulthood

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

We need a younger generation that's prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn't bode well for any of us.

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

It is such a tricky transition between education and work.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

I've seen too many people who struggle financially who save thousands of dollars and go on a one year trip. And then they come back out of money, thirty years old, and back to living with their parents and saying 'I'm back to getting any job possible to get more money for travel.'

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.