Earl Wilson Quotes

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

You can't be 16 forever.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

It's tough being a teenager, man!