Ang Lee Quotes

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

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.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

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

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think I am an adult.

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'm not a girl anymore.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

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

You've got to grow up sometime.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.