Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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!

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

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

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

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

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

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

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.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

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.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.