Jena Malone Quotes

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

The problems you have as a kid will seem ridiculous when you get older because bigger and worse problems will come along.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

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 know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.