Don Rickles Quotes

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

I've grown up a lot in England.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I changed from 'Zoo Kid' to 'King Krule' mainly because I didn't want to be called a 'Kid' when I was 20, so I just thought I'd get rid of that alias and change it now while I'm younger. I wanted to change it quick. and 'King Krule' was the first thing that came into my head.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.