Patrick J. Adams Quotes

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

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was 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.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

I think one of the greatest advantages we had on the show growing up was being exposed to Mr. Cosby - being exposed to his work ethic, being exposed to how he handles the job of celebrity and living in the public eye... I think that all had a real significant impact.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I've done it all - I'm good. Now, it's about setting an example for others to follow. I can't just talk it - I have to live it.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.