Ross Barkley Quotes

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

You've got to grow up sometime.

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.

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

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

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?

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

You can't be 16 forever.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

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

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

We all have to grow up some time.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

I'm totally growing up.

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.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

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

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

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

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.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?