Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

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.

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

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

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

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

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 grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

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.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

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.

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.

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