Forced Maturity Quotes

I've had to grow up pretty fast, which is not a good thing.

I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have to make their child characters smarter than adults, and suddenly kids have the vocabulary of a college grad.

... a boy on a man's errand.

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

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

Kids - black kids - are forced to grow up too soon.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.