Alessia Cara Quotes

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

It took me a long time to grow up.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

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 a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

As I grow older, I like to think I'm getting a little bit more mature.

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

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.