Lea Salonga Quotes

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

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

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

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.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

You gotta mature, you know.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

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 don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.