Quotes and Sayings about Teenage
"I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Sex, People, Dance, Teenage)
"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Daughter, College)
"I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs."
- Paul Anka
(Related: Talent, Songs, Teenage)
"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."
- Dario Argento
"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: School)
"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Pretty, Reason, Rebellion)
"I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren."
- Ellen Barkin
(Related: Work, Husband, Teenagers)
"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Advice, Old)
"Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Eating, Girls, Teenage)
"I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Daughters, Internet, Safety, Schools, Talk, Teenagers)
"According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months."
- Xavier Becerra
(Related: Decision, Alcohol, Months, Research, Teenage, Will)
"I had long hair when I was a teenager."
- Beck
(Related: Hair)
"I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: People, Character, Girls, Kids, Letters, Pretty, Teenagers, Want)
"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Movies, Deep, Now, Play, Teenagers)
"When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore."
- Bjork
(Related: Thought, People, Abuse, London)
"A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Dreams, Friend, Girls, Teenage)
"I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager."
- Kurtis Blow
(Related: Experience, Time, France, Germany, Old, World, Years)
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
- Joe Bob Briggs
(Related: America, Class, Now, Right)
"At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Business, Time, Work, Actor, Growing up)
"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Influence, Reading, Teenage, Years)
"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Interest, World)
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
- Louise Brown
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Children, Pets, Reason)
"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Son, Film, Now)
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Film, First)
"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Time, Teen, Heart, Being, Friends, Girls, Talk, Will)
"The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Men, Women, American, Liberty, Nation, Past, Teenage, World, Years)
"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
- Nicolas Cage
(Related: People, Now, Want)
"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."
- Tim Cahill
(Related: God, Opinion, Teenage, Writer, Writers, Years)
"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
- John Cale
(Related: Life, Football, Teenage, Years)
"I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism."
- James Callaghan
(Related: Teenage)
"In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities."
- John Carpenter
(Related: Character, Teenagers)
"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Time, Day, Drinks, Eyes, Teenage)
"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
- Joan Chen
(Related: Desire, Teenagers)
"In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Gay, Teenagers)
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
- John Cleese
(Related: Acting, American, Comedy, Kids, Principles, Problems, Teenage, Writing)
"More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television."
- Mindy Cohn
(Related: Movies, Teenagers, Television)
"I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry."
- Stephen Colbert
(Related: Poetry, School, Teenagers)
"I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type."
- Gary Cole
(Related: Family, Money, Fact, Kids, Teenage)
"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Achievement, Eyes, Giving, Importance, Teenagers)
"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
- Robbie Coltrane
(Related: Dad, Time, Parents, Past)
"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: American, Culture, Teenage, Years, Youth)
"As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
- Marion Cotillard
(Related: People, Want)
"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Uncertainty)
"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Day, Want)
"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Teenagers)
"I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Car, Thought, End)
"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
- Dan DeCarlo
(Related: Books, First)
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Talent, Thought, Ambition, Nothing)
"It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers."
- Caroline Dhavernas
(Related: Sex, Control, Teenage, Teenagers, Witty)
"That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least."
- Caroline Dhavernas
(Related: People, Weekend)
"The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Music, Boys, Games, Teenage)
"I started as a teenager going up on commercials."
- Fran Drescher
"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap."
- Eminem
(Related: Fact, Friends, Mind, Rap, Trying)
"I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else."
- Jake Epstein
(Related: Love)
"In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Life, Being, Teenage, Universe, World, Years)
"Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie."
- Brendan Fehr
(Related: Teen, Teenagers)
"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Science, American, Countries, France, Reading, School, Students, Teenagers)
"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
- Eddie Floyd
(Related: Inspiration, Teenagers)
"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. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have."
- Megan Fox
(Related: Drama, Girls, Queen, Teenage)
"By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do."
- Frank Frazetta
(Related: Time, Art, Artist)
"When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Music, School, Theater)
"Everybody is a teenage idol."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Teenage)
"I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music."
- Robin Gibb
(Related: Music, Life, Kids, Teenagers)
"Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager."
- Sara Gilbert
(Related: Character, Play, Years)
"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."
- Arnold H. Glasow
(Related: Life, Facts, Fish, Giving)
"I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music."
- Kim Gordon
(Related: Music, Teen, Girls, Play, Teenage, Want)
"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
(Related: Movies, Idea, Dumb, Hollywood, Teenagers)
"When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing."
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
(Related: Work, Acting, Fact)
"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one."
- Fred G. Gosman
(Related: Living, Teenagers)
"I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled."
- Richard E. Grant
(Related: Control, Feeling, Production, Theatre, Writing)
"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Audiences, Europe, Teenagers)
"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."
- Spalding Gray
(Related: Time, Knowledge, Girlfriend, Pain, School, Teenage, Years)
"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Experience, Living, Teenage)
"The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Teenagers, Want, World)
"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
- Marilyn Hacker
(Related: Literary, Poems, Reading, Want, Writer)
"The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon."
- Tom Harkin
(Related: War, Sex, Teenage)
"I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough."
- Dana Hill
(Related: Hurt, Teenage, Years)
"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
- Tony Hillerman
(Related: War, Drugs, Liquor, states)
"Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: College, Doctors, Lawyers, professionals, School, Scientists, Teachers, Teenagers)
"I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night."
- Amanda Holden
(Related: Money, Time, Beach, Friends, Night, Running, Sea)
"I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80."
- Mark Hoppus
(Related: Love, Life, School, Songs, Teenage)
"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
- John Hughes
(Related: Movies, Teen, Time, Sex, Idea, Boys, Hollywood, Horror, Nudity, Pretty, Pursuit)
"Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends."
- Holly Hunter
(Related: Family, Life, Daughters, Friends, Husbands, Lovers, Mothers, Teenage, Years)
"I was a veteran, before I was a teenager."
- Michael Jackson
"I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Car, Day, Girls, Teenage, Walking)
"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."
- Etta James
(Related: Car, Time, Country, Favorite, Guitar, Night, Road)
"I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager."
- Eugene Jarvis
(Related: Computers, Impulses)
"At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family."
- Milla Jovovich
(Related: Age, Family, Baby, Fun, Now, Right, Want, Years)
"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Stars, Teenagers, Thinking)
"I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics."
- Robert Kirkman
(Related: Teenagers)
"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Woman)
"Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves."
- John Knowles
(Related: Teenagers, Today)
"My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager."
- Anna Kournikova
(Related: Manager, Dress, Want)
"I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do."
- Anna Kournikova
(Related: Life, Love, Teenage, World)
"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."
- Wayne Kramer
(Related: Life, Idea, Possibilities, Rest)
"It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager."
- Mila Kunis
(Related: Life, World)
"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
- Doug Larson
(Related: Children, Teenagers)
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
- Doug Larson
(Related: Children, Teenagers)
"Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist."
- Jennifer Lawrence
(Related: People, Focus, Teenagers)
"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Quiet)
"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Life, Will)
"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Life, Will)
"I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Movies, Teenagers)
"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Family, Life, School, Teenagers)
"It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Car, Friends, Parents, Present, School)
"Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Family, Martin)
"When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school."
- Dave Lombardo
(Related: Life, Childhood, School, Teenage, Years)
"The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer."
- Julie London
(Related: Acting, First)
"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."
- Rob Lowe
(Related: Age, Successful, Actor, Being, Career, Trying)
"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China."
- Rob Lowe
(Related: Being, Tea)
"When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy."
- Matt Lucas
(Related: Comedy, School)
"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known."
- Heather Matarazzo
(Related: Business, School)
"The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Friendship, Fans, Film, Suffering)
"'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes."
- James McAvoy
(Related: Movies, American, Favorite, Fire, Jokes, Now, Teenage)
"I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot."
- Bruce McCulloch
(Related: Comedy, Drinking, Driving, Evil)
"I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace."
- John Mellencamp
(Related: Teenagers)
"I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors."
- Beverley Mitchell
(Related: Being, Criticism, Gossip, Ridicule, Rumors, Teenagers)
"I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be."
- Meredith Monk
(Related: Work, Artist, Intuition, Want)
"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."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Character, Children, Forget, Frustration, Parents, Want)
"A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money."
- Anne Northup
(Related: Family, Money, People, Democrats, Teenagers)
"We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed."
- John Oates
(Related: Nothing, Teenagers, Years)
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Mom, Heart, African, Empathy, Gay, Judges, Old, Poor, Teenage)
"When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics."
- Ken Olsen
(Related: Word)
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Car, Government, Money, Power, Boys, Giving, Teenage)
"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
- Miranda Otto
(Related: Being)
"Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces."
- Ann Patchett
(Related: Life, Wife, Being, Writing)
"The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies."
- James Patterson
(Related: People, Act, Cities, Teenagers)
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Heredity, Parents)
"It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great."
- Rosamund Pike
(Related: Dream, Friend, Film, Teenage, Theatre, Writer, Years, Youth)
"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
- Joseph Priestley
(Related: Society, War, Politicians, Teenagers)
"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Development, America, Conflict, Country, Security)
"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school."
- Denise Richards
(Related: Being, School)
"Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there."
- Andy Richter
(Related: Funny, Being, Cause, Flowers, Tears, Teenagers)
"I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately."
- Molly Ringwald
(Related: Being, France, Mistakes, Teenagers)
"Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Life, Doctors, Drugs, Lawyers, School, Teenagers)
"People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship."
- Keri Russell
(Related: Love, People, Fantasy, Teenage, Years)
"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Time, School)
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Guitar, Painting)
"A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything."
- Ben Savage
(Related: Problems, Teenagers)
"I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore."
- Devon Sawa
(Related: Play, Want)
"There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed."
- Rick Schroder
(Related: People, Persecution)
"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children."
- John Sculley
(Related: Family, Abuse, Children, Pregnancy, Teachers, Teenage)
"As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula."
- Bobby Sherman
(Related: Advice, Formula, Idols, Potential, Teenage)
"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood."
- Pauly Shore
(Related: Famous, Hollywood, Living, Night, School, Teenagers)
"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Example, Parents, Teachers)
"Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?"
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Death, People, Brother, Loss, Teenagers)
"It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man."
- Curtis Sittenfeld
(Related: American, Man, Teenage)
"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"
- Nikki Sixx
(Related: Authority, Resentment, Trying)
"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances."
- Peter Snell
(Related: Idea, Career, Circumstances, Gold, Potential)
"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
- Brittany Snow
(Related: Life, People, Play, Pretty, Television)
"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
- Penelope Spheeris
(Related: Music, World)
"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Poetry, Passion, Teenage, Years)
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
- George Stephen
(Related: Writing)
"I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated."
- Cat Stevens
(Related: Life, Famous, Media, Name)
"I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me."
- Patrick Stewart
(Related: Teenage, Years)
"When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'"
- Sharon Stone
(Related: Sex, Children, Friends, Teenage)
"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
- Theodore Sturgeon
(Related: Courage, Facts, Words, Writing)
"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
- Taylor Swift
(Related: Alcohol, Drugs, Songs, Teenagers)
"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
- David Talbot
(Related: Age, Dreams, Politics, Time, Civil rights, Night, President)
"I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon."
- David Talbot
(Related: Business, Integrity, Reason)
"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
- Tiffani Amber Thiessen
(Related: Now, Stress)
"Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought."
- Marlo Thomas
(Related: Thought, Boys, Living, Teenage)
"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Eyes, Hollywood, Teenage)
"Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem."
- Charlene Tilton
(Related: God, Purpose, Self, Teenage)
"My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it."
- Justin Timberlake
(Related: Teenage, Years)
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Country)
"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Idea, Being, Teenagers, Today)
"I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager."
- Kathy Valentine
(Related: First, Years)
"I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in."
- Matthew Vaughn
(Related: Life, Society, Time)
"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
- Milo Ventimiglia
(Related: Man)
"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."
- Gore Vidal
(Related: Advertising, American, World)
"My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul."
- Tim Vine
(Related: Soul)
"I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults."
- Bobby Vinton
(Related: Selling, Popular, Teenagers)
"We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life."
- John Walters
(Related: Life, Drugs, Kids, Problems, Teenage, Trying, Will, Years)
"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
- Julie Walters
(Related: Work, Family, Life, Time, Daughter, Now, Want)
"I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now."
- Jody Watley
(Related: Time, People, Artists, Now, Want, Woman)
"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager."
- Emily Watson
"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."
- Naomi Watts
(Related: Life, Mother, Mothers, Now, Play, Teenagers)
"It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour."
- Keenen Ivory Wayans
(Related: Sex, Jokes, Teenage, University)
"I haven't really forgotten what it's like to be a teenager and how much it sucked."
- Ben Weasel
"My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over."
- Sigourney Weaver
(Related: Father, HusbChurch, Right)
"Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money."
- Paul Weyrich
(Related: Money, Nations, Teenagers)
"As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together."
- Edmund White
(Related: Identity)
"Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along."
- Richard Widmark
(Related: Movies, Boys, Teenage, Today)
"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal."
- Esther Williams
(Related: Life, Teenage)