Kate McKinnon Quotes

I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.

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 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.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

When I was 18, I was working at Luton airport and spending all my money on going out and buying tops. I had no fears, no responsibilities.

I was so young in 'Bring It On!' I didn't know what I didn't know.

When we were recording 'This is Somewhere,' we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do.

I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're worried about day to day is what am I going to eat for dinner? I don't know how to cook, so I've got to get canned food. Those are the only worries you have in the world.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

'No Scrubs' is a mean song for a lot of reasons. If you're 18, 19-year-old guy, or even 17, your friend just got a license. You don't have a real job yet. It's like that song asks you to be an adult way faster than you should.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.