Tiffany Darwish Quotes

It's important not to make Spider-Man masculine because he's a kid. As soon as you make him masculine, it's harder to relate to him if you are younger and are in high school. I definitely was not masculine in high school.

I'm not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and 'I just bought some red bottoms.' That's cool, but that's not all there is to it. I'd rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.

Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.

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

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.