Sarah Steele Quotes

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.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

In every high school, there is a clique.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

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

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

In my freshman year of high school, I don't think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.

My high school experience - and I think a lot of people feel this way - was complicated and intense, and I learned a lot about female relationships during that time.

The one thing that you can't ever take away are the relationships, the experiences that you have, particularly at the high school level.

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

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

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

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.