Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

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

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

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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 felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.