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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.