Alexandra Chando Quotes

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

College makes you grow up.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

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.

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

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

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

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

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

I think I am an adult.

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.