Bria Vinaite Quotes

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

My mum was always saying when we were kids: 'If you don't do you homework you're not going to the gym.' She was always a big believer in having something to fall back on.

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence.

I was supposed to be in 'The Wire' but I was getting in trouble in school and on the streets.