Andie MacDowell Quotes

I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.

There are nothing but great things that come out of dancing. People are laughing, people are uncomfortable, it's an ice breaker.

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.

I've come to realize that people dance for reasons of their own.

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Dancing has always helped in keeping my fitness levels high. When I was in school and college, I used to dance a lot. It helped me stay healthy.

As much as I love my work, I do appreciate my rare days off. Even then, I can't afford to let the dancing go. I need at least an hour just to keep in shape, so wherever I am in the world, I'll grab the door or the furniture and do some serious exercise.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

The physical aspects of the game, it's probably the highlight for me. It's a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.

A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.