Alex Borstein Quotes

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

I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something.

When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I'd love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the '80s.

When I was a kid, those were carefree days without much pressure.

I feel like you're only young once.

No matter what, you can be a big kid in life.

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.

I give people permission to be kids again.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.