Christian Borle Quotes

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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

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 do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

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

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

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

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

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 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.

I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come into my own until very late. I feel that's true in cinema, too. I didn't even start 'Metropolitan' until I was 37.

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

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

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 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.