Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves in hard times or good times it would be an incredible world.

ADOLESCENCE ISN'T JUST ABOUT PROM OR WEARING SPARKLY DRESSES.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

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.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

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

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.