William Steig Quotes

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

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

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

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.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

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 like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

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

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

It took me a long time to grow up.