Margaret Cho Quotes

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

I ordered a decaf coffee the other night, and I was like, 'Holy crap, I'm an adult.'

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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 don't see what the point is in growing up.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

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.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

I feel like the life I live is extraordinary in a lot of ways but that it also comes with a lot of responsibilities. I've had to grow up pretty fast and deal with situations most 22-year-olds aren't really put into. There are days and weeks and months when you just don't stop.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up