Zendaya Quotes

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

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.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I used to love getting older.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I'm totally growing up.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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