Quotes About Adolescence

Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

High school, as much as it's 'not the real world,' is the real world for your child.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

I ended up having my first girlfriend when I was 13, and she was obsessed with Justin Bieber. I remember watching the 'Baby' music video and being so jealous of him. So I posted a cover of 'One Time' on YouTube, and she loved it.

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

Yes, I can do the cherry stem trick. All girls in my high school could do it.

It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

I'm a role model now. I didn't know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I've tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don't want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.

A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.

I always felt like I was stuck in between my parents, relaying information back and forth and walking on egg shells, not knowing what was going to trigger something to make them mad and not knowing what to say in front of them.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.