Peter Pan Syndrome Quotes

In reality, I never want to grow up.

I was born 10 years old.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

I don't think I'm my age. I'm truly 6 years old.

I never want to grow up.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

As a young man, I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

I just never want to completely grow up.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

I still feel 18, and I probably act that way half the time.

For me, 40 is the new 18, because I still act like a big kid.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow 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.