Olivia Colman Quotes

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

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.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.