Asa Butterfield Quotes

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

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'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

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

I think I am an adult.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

One should mature over 20 years.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

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.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

You can't be 16 forever.