Rufus Sewell Quotes

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.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

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

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

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.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

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.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.