Milla Jovovich Quotes

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

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

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

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 think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

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 haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.