Mary Renault Quotes

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I think I am an adult.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

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

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.