Rutina Wesley Quotes

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

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

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

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

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

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

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 felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.