Ben Casnocha Quotes

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

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 think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

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

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

I'm totally growing up.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.