Mike Lookinland Quotes

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I'm totally growing up.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

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.

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.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

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.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

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

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.