Talulah Riley Quotes

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.