Quotes About Adolescence

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

High school's like another planet.

I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

I'm journalling, checking in with myself. I write about the week and how it felt, my hopes and plans. I do it every evening, and have done since I was 13.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless. It was around the same time that I became really interested in music.

I didn't really have a normal high school experience. I was home-schooled and went to a co-op, so basically a school with about maybe 200 other home-schooled kids that would come together for classes.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time either by myself or with my mom. But when I hit high school, she really became one of my close friends.

I was that gay kid in high school who didn't have a lot of close friends but circulated amongst groups of people when necessary.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.

I really wasn't a class clown.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.