Misty Copeland Quotes

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

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

High school is really when I came into my own.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

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

When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

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 started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

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 knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

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

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

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 think part of maturity is knowing who you are.