Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

A lot of people ask me what has been the biggest change with me being in England and a lot of people expect me to say something related to football, but mostly it's just growing up and becoming a man.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

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

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

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

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.