Rachelle Lefevre Quotes

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

High school is really when I came into my own.

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 think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

I never dated much in high school or college.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.