Top 66 Puberty Quotes

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what’s going on.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn’t really want me anymore, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really want you, either.’

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, ‘Good!’

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

I’ve been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and you’re self-conscious and curious about its impact on others all at the same time.

I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

Harassment is one of puberty’s darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

It’s interesting because, even with ‘Beetlejuice,’ I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don’t know, I just got quieter… With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don’t know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

I don’t feel like I really hit puberty until I was almost 17. I’d go to dinner with my family, and I’m 15 or 16 years old, and the waiter was still giving me the children’s menu.

I can tell you that the book ‘The Ugly Truth’ is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person’s life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It’s the same for your parents as it is for you – what’s happening in your body dictates everything.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid’s body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.

Since puberty I’ve always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It’s better if you’re still peaking when you’re 60, which I feel I am.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

Most of what I’ve written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you’re going through puberty.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

It’s not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me.

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone’s life.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty.

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don’t know what they’re talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Since puberty, I’ve always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn’t anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.

I didn’t hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

I remember I could do – I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, ‘Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.’

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

I never actually got noticed on the street for ‘Harry Potter.’ I did it at such a young age, when I was going through puberty and changing up my hair and how I looked.

The thing about women playing boys is that we’re not going to age, and we’re not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class – they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don’t realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew… Looking back now, I’m glad I didn’t hit puberty until later.

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don’t get over that until much later in life. I feel like I’m just starting to get over puberty – basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it’s some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn’t outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Most of us have had that experience – at around puberty – of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.