Gia Coppola Quotes

I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

I had a hot-pink mohawk in high school, and when I came out everyone was like, 'We don't care.'

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.