Caroline Kennedy Quotes

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

I'm not a girl anymore.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

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

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

You've got to grow up sometime.

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.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.