Beanie Feldstein Quotes

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

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.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

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

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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

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

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

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

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

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've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

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.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

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.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

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

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.