Makoto Shinkai Quotes

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

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'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.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.