Raina Telgemeier Quotes

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

I was neeeever a cool kid.

I'm lucky that I don't have any big regrets. Maybe that undercut hairstyle from my youth.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

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

I'm in love with wigs. I get them custom-made, and I have my hairstylist shape them to my head. I can go from short to long in less than a minute!

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

I go through my comments sometimes, and I'll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it's horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

The bubble bowl! Yes, that made my career, and I should be grateful. I was stomping my feet when Garren was giving me that haircut. It's hard to say to a 17-year-old girl in 1993 that a bowl haircut was cool.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

There are photos of me with my Pony trucker hat, sideways. Truly, awesomely, horrible.

It's just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in 'You Can't Take It With You.' Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there's no videotape of it.

I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.