Carlene Carter Quotes

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

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.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

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.

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.