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

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

I started when I was five, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

If you're an adult who takes 'Made in Chelsea' seriously, I suggest you take a look at yourself.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.

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

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

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