Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa McCarthy

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

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.

Mattie Stepanek

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Matt Smith

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Meg Cabot

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

Marilyn vos Savant

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Pat Paulsen

Marijuana should be licensed and kept out of the hands of teenagers. It's too good for them.

Laura Mennell

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

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.

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.

Norman Granz

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

Noah Baumbach

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

Markus Zusak

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

Markus Zusak

We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

Markus Zusak

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

Marilyn Manson

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Marilyn Manson

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

Mae Whitman

Being a teenager is hard.