Quotes About Adolescence

It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.

As a teenager, the idea of running around, screaming at people was very appealing to me.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'

I was a really pretentious teenager.

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.