Mackenzie Davis Quotes

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

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Our lives teach us who we are.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

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

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.