Donald Glover Quotes

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

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.

Early youth is a baffling time.

High school's weird, man.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

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.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

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.

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.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

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.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.