Paul Rudd Quotes

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I'm totally growing up.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

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.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

I was born in London but, after my dad passed away, we moved to Kent for a fresh start.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

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.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.