Ryan Stiles Quotes

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

When you get a little bit older, you're always trying to do something different from your siblings.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

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.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

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.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.