Mena Suvari Quotes

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

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

I am a child who is getting on.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

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 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.

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.

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

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.