top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
Standard
Customized
More
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."
Teenager
"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
Habit
"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously."
Now
"You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."
Problems
"Fame doesn't end loneliness."
End
"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
Career
"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."
July
"I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day."
Day
"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
Work
"But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it."
Love
bottom of page