Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Cage

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

Noomi Rapace

When I was a teenager, I was like, Something is wrong with me. I dont fit in. Im not like everybody else. So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Noomi Rapace

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

Nigel Cole

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

Morris Chestnut

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

Miranda Otto

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Mignon McLaughlin

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

Mignon McLaughlin

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Johnny Marr

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

Eric Jensen

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

Penelope Mitchell

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

Penelope Spheeris

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Marnie Stern

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.

Marisha Pessl

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Mariah Carey

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Megan Fox

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Matthew Vaughn

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 Tobin Anderson

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Matt Lucas

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Maya Angelou

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Mark Waters

After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

Melissa McCarthy

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

S. E. Hinton

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

Stephen Rea

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Molly Ringwald

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

Molly Ringwald

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Penelope Cruz

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

Pauly Shore

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.

Pete Sampras

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

Philip Pullman

I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.