All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
~By Joan Chen ~
Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
~By Richard Widmark ~
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
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.
~By John Walters ~
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
~By Mary Cheney ~
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 ~
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
~By Norman Granz ~
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
~By Sharon Stone ~
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
~By Tom Harkin ~
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 ~
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
~By Julie London ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
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.
~By Ellen Barkin ~
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
~By Anne Northup ~
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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 ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
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.
~By Donal Logue ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
~By Doug Larson ~
More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
~By John Knowles ~
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 ~
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.
~By Julius Erving ~
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 ~
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
~By Doug Larson ~
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 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.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
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.
~By Andy Richter ~
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 ~
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 ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
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 ~
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.
~By Kathy Valentine ~
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
~By Rob Lowe ~
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.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
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.
~By Donal Logue ~
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 ~
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
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.
~By Gary Cole ~
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
~By Fran Drescher ~
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!
~By Nikki Sixx ~
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 ~
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 had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
~By Paul Anka ~
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.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
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.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
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 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.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
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.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
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 ~
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.
~By Molly Ringwald ~
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 ~
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 ~
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
~By John Cale ~
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.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
~By Taylor Swift ~
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
~By Eugene Jarvis ~
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.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
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 were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
~By Calvin Klein ~
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 ~
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
~By Eddie Floyd ~
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 ~
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
~By James Callaghan ~
I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.
~By Devon Sawa ~
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
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 ~
I had long hair when I was a teenager.
~By Beck ~
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
~By Thomas Dolby ~
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.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
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 ~
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
~By Bruce Barton ~
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
~By Danielle Steel ~
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.
~By Bjork ~
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.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
~By Dario Argento ~
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 ~
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Denise Richards ~
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