America Ferrera Quotes

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

You can't be 16 forever.

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

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.