Becoming an Adult Quotes

When I was very young, I didn't talk a lot. If an adult was speaking, I was listening. I think it was the moment I turned 18 when I was like, 'I'm an adult now and have opinions and things to say, so now it's time for people to listen to me.'

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.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

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.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

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

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

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.'

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.

Sometimes you have to mature.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.