Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

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.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

Rock 'n' roll says, 'Hey, man, this is where you can be normal,' and then after a while you grow up and you go, 'Wait a minute. Oh, by the way, I learned how to do these cool things, but I never learned how to speak my mind. I never learned how to express myself emotionally. I should have been paying attention more.'

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.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

I know what my identity is.

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 definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.