Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

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

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

Coming from Flint, I was really immature on the court and off the court.

High school is something that we have to deal with. It's not a glorified fluffy, fun, prince-and-princess kind of time.

A lot of people I've grown up with have got themselves in sticky situations.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

When you're young it's boring to be a keeper.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.