Jamie Parker Quotes

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

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.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.

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.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

I love the idea of college, but I first need to figure out how to transition to being an adult because we honestly never thought I would make it to this point.

I'm a big kid.