Jonah Hill Quotes

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

There was definitely a time where I kind of did rebel a little bit, but it was not until I had graduated college.

As for growing up on TV, I have just let things happen.

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.