Quotes About Adolescence

I mean, what makes her think I don't know about dry-humping? I could dry-hump my way through Cuba if I felt like it. She can't even spell 'pregnant'.

Children were hard to deal with; children who were on the verge of adulthood must be the hardest of all. Maybe she'd been too difficult for Emily, and that was a sad thought. "I

I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

If you can build up a sense of self-confidence if you're non-white by the time you're 15, 16 then that can't be taken away from you.

I was 5'3' when I was 15, but suddenly shot up to over 6 feet by the time I turned 18 and it was clear that an NBA career was up for grabs.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

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

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.

I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

When I was 14, I had a job in a cake shop. I got caught by the boss, lying down eating cake, and was sacked on my first day.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

I played pee-wee football coming up. If I had known the type of chicks they would get when I was in school, I'd probably focused on it a little more.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

I chose to wear the hijab at age 16, soon after my family moved from Britain to Saudi Arabia.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.