Ashley Benson Quotes

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Teens are strange and magical.

I go through so many different phases, just like every teenage girl does.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

I am like any typical teenager.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

I am always experimenting with roles.

When you're young and starting out, a lot of artists think they know exactly who they are. There are others who come out in someone else's skin. They learn to take it off bit-by-bit and work out the core of what they're trying to say.

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.