peer interactions Quotes

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls...From what I've experienced, women aren't good friends to one another. When guys want to hang out with you because your personality is badass, women immediately hate you.

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.