Quotes About Adolescence

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a nerd, I wasn't a jock. I wasn't a bad kid. I just flew under the radar with my homies.

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.

I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird time.

As I got older, I lived right next next to the Long Island Railroad, so in junior high and high school I'd just jump on the train with friends and head to the city. We'd run away from the conductors, hide from them in the bathroom. It was just what you did.

I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through 'phases.' I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.

My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me 'Hollywood' because I went to the movies all the time. It was such great escapism. That's why I ran away from home.

As I got into high school I sort of came into my own and gained some confidence and, luckily, wasn't really bullied by others.

I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

There were gangs in the school I went to. They fought each other constantly.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

I was such a geek in school.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.

I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.