Will Poulter Quotes

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

High school's weird, man.

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

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

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

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.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

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.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

That kind of 'Lord of the Flies' brutality of being 11, it's a tough time. You're trying to figure out who you are, and who your friends are, and what your alliances are, and kids fall out all the time.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

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.