Drew Barrymore Quotes

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

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.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

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

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I want to write about grown-up things.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

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.

I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

There are poets and there are grownups.

When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.