Johnny Depp Quotes

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

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.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

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. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

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

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

You can't be 16 forever.

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.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

I'm such a late bloomer.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?