When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
I think scary movies work best when they're relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is bullying. Either doing it, being on the other end of it, being caught doing it.
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
People are so terrified of other people. I see it in my generation a lot. There's so much anxiety and angst, and the pressure just keeps getting worse.
When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
I hope I die before I get old.
All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.
I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.
There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl.
My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'
I've chronicled a time when I was 17, 18, utterly terrified that you're not gonna get anywhere with whatever you want to do. It's that fear and claustrophobia that I think comes to most people living in small towns. But I am lucky, because I just knew that music was my thing.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.
I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.
I was a very young 21-year-old. I was very scared. I spent three years at university in west London, and I went into central London three times. I came from Shropshire, and just having travelled that far was enough ambition.
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.
