Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

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

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

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 feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

I didn't really have a group of friends 'till I was 19, and I didn't kiss anyone until I was 21.

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

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

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 actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.