Kristen Stewart Quotes

I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

I think there'll always be things that kids get into that they grow out of when they start living real life.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

School is a foretaste of life.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.