Itzhak Perlman Quotes

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.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I got to do school properly and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. It wasn't like I needed to be doing acting.

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.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

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.

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.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

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.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

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

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.