Francia Raisa Quotes

My teenage life was a little strange.

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

I've been a teenage girl, too, so I've had my own insecurities and my own struggles that I've got through.

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.

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

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.