Drew Barrymore Quotes

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

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