Jason Mitchell Quotes

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Life's been a rollercoaster for me, but I think we can all agree on enduring ups and downs. I've yet to meet a person who hasn't gone through something major in their life.

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

You grow up faster in a place where anything goes.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I had to grow up very quickly.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

Every young man will make a mistake in his life, I bet you.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.