Jessica Fox Quotes

My mother was very strict, and though I was reserved, I did give in to certain demands of my age, like sneaking out of the house to hit Dublin.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

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.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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

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.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

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

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

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

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.