Catherine Jinks Quotes

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.

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

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.