Jenna Ushkowitz Quotes

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

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.

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, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

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 can't be 16 forever.

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 loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

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.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

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.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

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

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

When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

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

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

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

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.