Quotes About Adolescence

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

Thousands of German prisoners were being shepherded back to holding pens and it was both striking and disturbing to see how young they were – teenagers in the main, wispy adolescent fuzz on their chins and cheeks, all in uniforms that seemed far too large for them, borrowed from men.

Girls are born weaned and boys don't ever get weaned.

The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young.

Acting like a crowd of kids/ the mask was a thin thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness/ He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in return/ They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought"?Lord of the Flies?