Paul Feig Quotes

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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

I enjoyed being a teenager.

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

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 obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

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.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

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 remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

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.

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.

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.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I was neeeever a cool kid.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Being a teenager is complicated.