Chris Lilley Quotes

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.

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

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

I've played a lot of teenagers and I think sometimes they tend to make them a bit too mushy, because you're not actually connected to yourself at all really when you're a teenager.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

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.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

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

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.