Greta Gerwig Quotes

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

Both Frankenstein and the Hulk are looked at as horrific, but they're just trying to find their way, like all of us.

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.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

I didn't want to hurt my parents' feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad left my senior year before I went to college.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.