Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

I was something of a late bloomer.

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

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

I was a late bloomer.

I'm such a late bloomer.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

I was definitely a late bloomer.

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

To put it mildly, I was just a very late bloomer.

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

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

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.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

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 think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.

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

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

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'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.