Pre-Teen Years Quotes

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother's clothes, dude!

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

My aunt has this video from when I was 6 years old, no teeth or nothing, and I told my mom and my aunt that I was going to the NFL.

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.