“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."” IfsFirstsSaidAgeLike YouPersonalityFitMetsCome UpAgentsRangeBlondeBrunette Author:Tia Carrere
“You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.” KnowsFeelsWritingSometimesAgeDiesCryLike YouBabyDown AndLaysLifts Author:Van Morrison
“You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.” KnowsWorldFeelsHappensAgeCertainTurnsLike YouFitWho You ArePerceive Author:Jason Schwartzman
“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.” LittlesAgeLosesLike YouOld AgeWitness Book:Rabbit is Rich Source: Rabbit is Rich
“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!” WayWritingStillsBookFactsAgeUsedStuffSoundRecordsLike YouComputerFairsExtrasThis DayOld FashionedNot Fair Author:Steve Bunce
“One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.” FeelsYearsAgeGrowingOne ThingLike YouNineOld AgeEightyGrowing OldNine YearsOld YouLike Yourself Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)
“I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantIdeasBigsHappensAgeStuffRealizingLike YouPeriodsStartingWho I AmBeginnersBig StuffApproaching Life Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.” AgeRememberLike YouDadMetsMovedRateMy DadAverageAgentsMortality Author:Willard Scott
“One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.” WorldAgeWantedFeltTroubleEventsSonLike YouChanging The World Author:Robert Fogel
“Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.” StillsEndsMomentsFeelingsAgeSongFallInterestingPowerfulYouthExpressionLike YouIndependenceSymbolsRebellionComing Of AgeRest Of Your LifeMaking TimeHope For The Future Author:Jennifer Egan
“I think that's the hardest thing as a woman, feeling like once you reach a certain age, no one wants to look at you or that you're not attractive or sexy anymore. And you start to feel like you're put out to pasture.” ThinkingWantFeelsLooksFeelingsAgeCertainLike YouSexyHardestAttractiveHardest ThingPastures Author:Erin Davie
“Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsMindAgeMiddleLike YouAshamedMiddle AgesCompensationThink Of You Author:Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
“It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought you, at the age of 12 or 13, could have a better understanding of Stanislavski. Why did you think that you didn't need to go to school?" It was quite funny. But, I was certainly inspired.” ThinkingNeedsShowsAgeSchoolUnderstandingActingLike YouInspiredFreakStanislavski Author:Giles Matthey
“Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.” PeopleWantMeanLittlesDifferentKidsAgeSchoolLike YouCatholicGreat ThingsValleysElementary SchoolCatholic SchoolClosed Minded Author:Katy Rose
“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.” FeelsYearsHumansDoneAgeWantedMy OwnHuman BeingsDealsViolenceHeardLike YouMy FamilyBehaveNicheUnlovable Author:Sam Hamill
“We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?” MeanI CanUseEyeAgeBeautifulSongNextOpportunityEnergyFeltStuffLike YouWallToolsWindowOvercomingWeightWake UpAwakeningRealizationNext DayBreaking Down Author:Chuck Ragan
“You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.” NeedsAgeMotherCertainFatherRealizingLike YouRight NowGirlfriendSomedayBe YouSpouseMy GirlfriendLike Yourself Author:Angel Olsen
“You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.” IfsKnowsWellsMeanAgeUsedMotherCertainCrazyLike YouDrunkEmbarrassedYour Best Friend Author:Chrissie Hynde