Prodigy Quotes

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

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.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I feel a lot older than I am.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.