Rory O'Malley Quotes

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

I think that I've always been a normal kid.

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

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.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Early youth is a baffling time.

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.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

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

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

When you're young, influences count.

Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

You'd go back to school and your friends would say, 'What you get for Christmas?' You got to make up a lie. 'I got this, this and this.' It's all part of growing up and everyone has a different story. It made me who I am today.