Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

I think there'll always be things that kids get into that they grow out of when they start living real life.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.