Ricky Schroder Quotes

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

I've aged, but grown up? No.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I think every child actor has that moment where they're like, 'OK, I'm not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.'

As I grow up, and knowing that the people who I'm reaching are so young, it for sure changes my perspective on how I want to be perceived.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

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

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

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