James Hillman Quotes

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

No one wants to be 13 and not able to eat their ice cream after dinner.

Somehow, this child is gonna show me what to do, because I thought maybe I'll grow up by then, but no. I still just want to play around in my Crocs and tutus, so I don't know.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

It's shocking when you start to grow up and realise that your parents had a life before you! But why would you? Sometimes you don't really have a need to.

Living in Italy meant growing up without MTV.

Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

Take in every moment. Don't try to grow up too quickly.

I'm not having to grow up in the spotlight as a 14- or 15-year-old.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Maybe when you're 18, 19, 20, you could have a bit of a wobble if you're going on live TV and playing guitar. But in your thirties you've got to just grow up about it.

I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

As you get older you lose interest in what you hear on the radio. But you can't be like that, you have to enjoy what's going on.

I know what it's like to grow up in Hollywood.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

I wish we could get back to those days, just let kids go and play and enjoy themselves on the streets instead of at academies too young.

Naturally, when you're a younger brother with two older brothers, I mean, they're going to beat on you, and they're going to make you... you're going to grow up differently. You're going to turn into a little animal.