Late Bloomer Quotes

#1. Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.

Candace Bushnell

#2. I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

Daphne Zuniga

#3. In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.

Aimee Garcia

#4. Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

Ron Perlman

#5. I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

Paul Pierce

#6. Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

Xavier Dolan

#7. Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life.

Rhyme Devereux

#9. Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

Stacy Keach

#10. I guess you can say I was a late bloomer.

Jeremy Shockey

#11. I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

Nasim Pedrad

#12. I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

Mike Birbiglia

#13. I guess I'm a late bloomer."
"I sure like you blooming with me, Bev.

Penny Watson

#14. I was a late bloomer.

Alia Shawkat

#15. Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

#16. I was definitely a late bloomer.

Clay Matthews III

#17. I was such a late bloomer I didn't have feelings towards men or women, and frankly I was a little surprised when it turned out to be men

Diane Neal

#18. I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

Gabriel Mann

#19. I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

Jenny Lewis

#20. 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

Ben Fountain

#21. I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

#22. I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

Rick Yancey

#23. I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Chris Pine

#24. I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Misty Copeland

#25. I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

Britta Phillips

#26. I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.

Arija Bareikis

#27. I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

Christian Borle

#28. I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

John Isner

#29. No one becomes a late bloomer doing something they hate.

J.M. Orend

#30. I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

Yul Vazquez

#31. I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Sharon Olds

#32. I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

Anna Kendrick

#33. When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.

Stephen Malkmus

#34. I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Salma Hayek

#35. I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.

Meghan Daum

#36. I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

Pete Wentz

#37. I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#38. I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.

Kevin Martin

#39. I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!"

Lizzy Caplan

#40. I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.

Debra Messing

#41. I'm such a late bloomer.

Ang Lee

#42. I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

Patti Smith

#43. I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Blackburn

#44. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark

Criss Jami

#45. The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Malebo Sephodi