Miranda Otto Quotes

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

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

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

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.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

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

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

Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.

I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think.

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

I don't think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

High school is really when I came into my own.

As I got into high school I sort of came into my own and gained some confidence and, luckily, wasn't really bullied by others.

The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.