Demetri Martin Quotes

At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.

I remember putting mascara on when I was 13 for the first time and going to the shop to buy a chocolate bar. I felt so exposed. I remember wearing a bra for the first time and feeling very exposed by that.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

Middle school left some scars, as I'm sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.

I'm 16, and I'm still self-conscious. Everyone is at this age.

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.

We got boobies!" the kid me said, gawking at my chest. "I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.