Joe Calzaghe Quotes

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

I started really working in, like, 2014, so I was 13, 14 years old.

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.

I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.