Jameela Jamil Quotes

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.