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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Claire Danes

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Dale Earnhardt

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Diane Cilento

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Constance Baker Motley

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Winona Ryder

I haven't really forgotten what it's like to be a teenager and how much it sucked.

Ben Weasel

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Brittany Snow

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Alice Hoffman

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

Matthew Vaughn

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Miranda Otto

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

Ethel Waters

I was a handful growing up.

Olivia Wilde

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Nigella Lawson

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Jamie Lee Curtis

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

George Foreman