Rita Volk Quotes

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

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

High school was interesting. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. But everyone is trying to find their footing, and school can be a tough environment. Kids can be cruel to each other. It's quite unforgiving at times.

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.

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

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

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

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.