Misty Copeland Quotes

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

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.

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.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

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

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.