Leighton Meester Quotes

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

I don't think 'Euphoria' can capture the entirety of the teen-in-high-school experience, but I think it is realistic. It's scary in that sense because I don't think we get to see a lot of depictions of high school this raw. I think that truth might scare people.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can't wait to explore the world because it's such a bubble.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

My teenage life was a little strange.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.

Luckily, my age doesn't ever come into my thoughts.

I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you.

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

I have to be honest: when you have 70 fights under your belt, your priorities change.

Being a teenager is complicated.