David Schwimmer Quotes

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

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

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.