Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

As for growing up on TV, I have just let things happen.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.