Chris Hadfield Quotes

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

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.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

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.

It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.