Laura Trott Quotes

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.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

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

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

In high school, I was scared to dance.

I don't wanna be a Londoner! Growing up, that was hell - being one of them kids who wears Air Force 1s and that. It made me feel sick.

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

It was go-along to get-along social. It was living in Los Angeles, being young and single, and flowing with the trendy liberal crowd.

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.

I don't know why people be in the club trying to be so cool. Standing around, trying to be cool. I don't get that. I just think everybody wanna be a star. That's why people don't dance.