Russell Howard Quotes

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' is about how, as a young woman, everyone gets that moment of being in bloom, but nobody really appreciates it.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

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

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.