Jaime Winstone Quotes

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.