Karen DeCrow Quotes

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

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.

Early youth is a baffling time.

You can't be 16 forever.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

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

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.