Italia Ricci Quotes

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

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 always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

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

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

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

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.