Ezra Koenig Quotes

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

I think I am an adult.

I'm totally growing up.

I'm not a girl anymore.

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

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.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

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

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

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

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.

With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me.