Kristy McNichol Quotes

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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.

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

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

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

I've got some growing up to do.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

We all have to grow up some time.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

College makes you grow up.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I am growing up, but I still need help along the way.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.