Jenna Wortham Quotes

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

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

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on the stool and sing. 'T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.' I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.