Premature Adulthood Quotes

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

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

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

I never got a chance to be a teenager.

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

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

You grow up faster in a place where anything goes.

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I've been my family's breadwinner since I was 11.

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.