Max Lerner Quotes

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm 18 and I like it!

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

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

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

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

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

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

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

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

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.