Just because I do what I do doesn’t mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
Being stuck in adolescence – that’s a hell. ‘Peter Pan’ is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you’re 25.
I think anyone who’s ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today’s generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ did just that, and I still do love it.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.
I don’t believe in professional dissidents. I think it’s just a phase, like adolescence.
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles itself as an insect. It’s very hard to change after that.
I think there’s so much to play in adolescence; there’s so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there’s just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.
Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it was the chef himself to whom, early on in my cooking, I would make the most references. I don’t mean that I tried to cook like him. Rather, that I tried to think like him.
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 – I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you’re going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
I was never a big fashion person, and so I’m sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren’t that expensive and made sense at the time. But I’m sure that I look back and say, ‘What was I thinking?’ My adolescence was more in the ’80s, and that’s more my cross to bear.
I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and my waves weren’t really consistent or pretty.
It’s interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.’
The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise – if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut – that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.
Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn’t easy.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
When you share something about your adolescence, it’s a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
In our house we say ‘adolescence’ is a western word. We don’t believe in it.
I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it – it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason – I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.
I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli.
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver’s license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while ‘Men Behaving Badly’ remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony’s eternal adolescence?
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
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