Adam Sandler Quotes

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

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!

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

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

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

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