Seth Gabel Quotes

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

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

You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

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.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.