C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

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 realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

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.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I never grew up.

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

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I remember what it was like at age 6, not really understanding what was going on around me, but having all these grown-up thoughts running through my head about what I was facing, why this was happening.