Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking,… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“You don’t necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices.… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
![“I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But it's about adolescence. It's about what it feels like - this isn't meant as a criticism, but like things I didn't relate to, which were high school movies. Where I'd watch it and…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/493/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_adolescence_i-know-exactly-what-that-movie-s-brokeba_2136459.jpg)
