Barbara Park Quotes

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

You need to act your age and not your girl's age

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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 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.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

I think the word is adult!

One has the impression that the young do not want to, or perhaps cannot, grow up. Our campuses have become dour, playless nurseries echoing with doctrinaire baby talk. You see six-foot babies clamoring for power and protesting against universities not having adequate arrangements for child care.

We're sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that's hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.

I don't think I'm being forced to grow up too fast; I would rather people treat me like an adult.