Adrian Tomine Quotes

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Self-realization is great.

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

Art helped give me confidence.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.