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?
~By Andrew Shue ~
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.
~By James S. Coleman ~
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
~By Norman Granz ~
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.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
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.
~By Steve Buyer ~
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
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.
~By John Carpenter ~
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.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
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.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
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.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
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!
~By John Hughes ~
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.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
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.
~By Jody Watley ~
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.
~By Andrew Shue ~
The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
~By Thomas Dolby ~
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.
~By Kurtis Blow ~
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.
~By Heather Matarazzo ~
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.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
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.
~By David Talbot ~
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.
~By Kristin Davis ~
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
~By John Cale ~
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.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
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.
~By Edmund White ~
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
~By Sharon Stone ~
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.
~By John Cleese ~
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.
~By Tim Vine ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
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.
~By Holly Hunter ~
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.
~By John Oates ~
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.
~By Gore Vidal ~
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.
~By Chester Brown ~
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
~By Matt Lucas ~
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
~By Keri Russell ~
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
~By Eugene Jarvis ~
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
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.
~By Megan Fox ~
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.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
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.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
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.'
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
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.
~By Kim Gordon ~
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
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.
~By Peter Snell ~
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
~By Mary Cheney ~
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.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
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.
~By Adriana Lima ~
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
~By Emily Watson ~
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.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
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.
~By Adriana Lima ~
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
~By Carter Burwell ~
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
~By John Sculley ~
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.
~By Dave Barry ~
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.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
~By Tiffani Amber Thiessen ~
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.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
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!
~By Catherine Bell ~
It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
~By Mila Kunis ~
'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.
~By James McAvoy ~
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.
~By Johnny Depp ~
The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
~By Doug Larson ~
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
~By Julie London ~
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.
~By Melissa Bean ~
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.
~By David Talbot ~
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.
~By Dean Kamen ~
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.
~By Winona Ryder ~
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.
~By Julie Walters ~
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.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
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.
~By Naomi Watts ~
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.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
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.
~By Tim Cahill ~
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.
~By Milla Jovovich ~
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
~By Bruce Barton ~
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.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
~By George Stephen ~
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
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.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
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.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
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.
~By Eminem ~
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.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
I haven't really forgotten what it's like to be a teenager and how much it sucked.
~By Ben Weasel ~
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.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
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.
~By Robin Gibb ~
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.
~By Louise Brown ~
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.
~By Brittany Snow ~
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.
~By Lester Bangs ~
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.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
~By Doug Larson ~
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.
~By Sophia Bush ~
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.
~By James Patterson ~
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.
~By Rick Schroder ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
~By Loni Anderson ~
Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
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