Glenn Tipton Quotes

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

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.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

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

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

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

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

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.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

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.