Quotes About Adolescence

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

When you stay with Barcelona and are only 15 or 16, the people show you a lot of time, and you are in the newspaper every day. This sometimes is good, but sometimes this is bad.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

'Animal' was my nickname in high school.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

It's much easier being a father to girls. Boys are just horrible. Then girls come into their own around 12 when they're nightmares too.

My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't explain to a little boy why I can't read him his bedtime story six nights a week. And he's even said to me, 'Mom, if you want to do a show somewhere, you should go.'

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before.

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

I have no friends from high school. That was probably the reason I ended up dropping out, and I dealt with that by eating.

I didn't have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.