Judd Apatow Quotes

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

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

I'm a big kid, you know?

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

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

I'm a big kid.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think I am an adult.

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.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

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.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

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.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

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