Quotes About Adolescence

Typically kids with dark-colored hair mature faster than those with light-colored hair.

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

I was a very feisty teenager and I got into a few altercations, and, you know, you mature and realize that's not the proper way to handle things.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I think I was one of those kids that, at the age of 13, start filling out a little bit: I was the kid that had the chest, the arms, the calves, especially, with these big legs like an adult.

I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff - casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.