Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

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

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

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.

I'm a big kid, you know?

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

I've got some growing up to do.

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

I'm a big kid.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.