Derek Carr Quotes

I had to grow up a little fast.

I had to grow up very quickly.

I grew up really fast.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

I've had to grow up pretty fast, which is not a good thing.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

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.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

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

No pressure, no diamonds.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

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

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.