Richard Linklater Quotes

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

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 don't know who you are when you're 14.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

It's tough to be 12. You're not quite a man, but you think you are.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.