Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.