Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Vanessa Bayer

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

Umberto Eco

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

Robin Wasserman

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Gibb

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.

Rob Corddry

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

Ryan McGinley

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

Thomas Sowell

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Rob Lowe

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe

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

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

Richard Lloyd

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

Richard Linklater

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Rebecca Hall

I was a really pretentious teenager,

Sarah Dessen

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

Sarah Dessen

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

Sandra Bullock

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.

Roger Ebert

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Sarah Polley

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

Winona Ryder

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.

Woodrow Wilson

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Ziggy Marley

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

William E. Gladstone

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Vivienne Westwood

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

Wendy Wasserstein

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

Ryan Phillippe

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Ryan Seacrest

Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'

Wesley Morris

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.