Vanessa Carlton Quotes

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

I've got some growing up to do.

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

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I'm totally growing up.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

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.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

You've got to grow up sometime.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

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

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

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.