Quotes About Coming-of-age

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I saw 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' with my mom. It was really awkward.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

young girl Revere had brought home

Are you still there God? It's me, Margaret. I know you're there God. I know you wouldn't have missed this for anything! Thank you God. Thanks an awful lot.…

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I'm going to temple today—with Grandma. It's a holiday. I guess you know that. Well, my father thinks it's a mistake and my mother thinks the whole idea is crazy, but I'm going anyway. I'm sure this will help me decide what to be. I've never been inside a temple or a church. I'll look for you God.

girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,

He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Of course, watching 'Stand By Me' is, to me, the pinnacle of child performances in movies or shows. It doesn't get much better than that, and those kids, you feel like you know them instantly and they feel real.

When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.

I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.