Tristan MacManus Quotes

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

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

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

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.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.

I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.