George MacKay Quotes

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.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

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

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

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

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

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

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.

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

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.

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.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

Being a teenager is complicated.

At 15, 16, life is being tossed at you.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

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

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

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

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.

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.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.