Richard Bach Quotes

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

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.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.