Gia Coppola Quotes

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.

College makes you grow up.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

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

As far as change, anyone from the age of 13 to 19, you become a whole new person because you grow up. There was so much that I didn't know or that I thought I knew because I was just a 13-year-old at the time who thought I knew everything. But I realized very quickly that, no, there's so much about everything that I don't. So what I've at least tried to do is accept that I don't know everything. Life is so much more fun that way. And it's easier. I've just been trying to learn, rather than to pretend that I'm perfect.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

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.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

I'm totally growing up.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.