Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Dickinson

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

Bonnie McKee

I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.

Anton Yelchin

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

Bruce McCulloch

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.

Brittany Snow

I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

Brittany Snow

I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Betty White

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Eddie Murphy

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

David Robertson

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.

Barry Commoner

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Audrey Tautou

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Edmund White

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

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Edgar Wright

I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV.

Ben Casnocha

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

Diane Cilento

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Daniel Handler

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

Dan Stevens

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

Clara Hughes

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Eli Roth

I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.

Ashlee Simpson

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

Ben Savage

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.

Barbara Ehrenreich

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Miley Cyrus

Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite

Bruce Springsteen

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

Bruce Springsteen

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

Brian Aldiss

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.