Dexter Fletcher Quotes

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm totally growing up.

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 not sure I'm adult yet.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I think I am an adult.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

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

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.