Richard Madden Quotes

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

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 knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

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.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.