Diego Luna Quotes

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices - education, career, lifestyle - life gets more and more complicated.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.

'Girl in the City Chapter 2' will still continue to revolve around Meera Sehgal and her life, her friends, and her passion. The stark difference in 'Chapter 2' will be that all the characters have now grown up in the series - in terms of maturity if not so much age.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.

My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.