Damon Hill Quotes

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

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 think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.