Lee Unkrich Quotes

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

My life has been about big changes.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

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

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

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

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

I can't imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what's changed? What's different But it's just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.