Kenan Thompson Quotes

I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.

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.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

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.

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I think every child actor has that moment where they're like, 'OK, I'm not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.'

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

You can't go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.