Gregory Smith 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.

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.

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

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

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

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

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

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

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.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

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 went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.