Sarah Michelle Gellar Quotes

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

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

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

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.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.