Blackbear Quotes

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

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.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

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 either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

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.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

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

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.