Georg Brandes Quotes

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

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.

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.

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

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.

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

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.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

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.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.