Carmen Carrera Quotes

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

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.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada and moved to the big city of Vancouver. I kind of had to decide right there in that moment what I was going to do with the rest of my life and make a thousand decisions after finishing high school. Fortunately, I chose acting.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

I think my rookie, I was just having fun. I was 18, and I was living the American dream.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

In your twenties, you're trying to figure out who you are: making mistakes, wanting to be sexy, growing up as a woman.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

I think back to when I was in high school, to 17-year old Daria, who was dating guys and thought that that was the only way of life. I was very confused, and it was definitely manifesting itself in other parts of my life that were unhealthy.

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.