Peter Jurasik Quotes

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just becoming an adult and just wanting to fit in, be accepted, and be in common with the other dancers.

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 became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

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

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

Being a teenager is hard.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.