Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Wong

I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"

Lin Shaye

I'm not a blood and guts person. I remember seeing 'House of Wax' as a teenager in 3D. This was years ago, the original 'House of Wax', and that was scary enough for me that I thought I'd never see another one.

Lilith Saintcrow

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

Leelee Sobieski

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Lester Bangs

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Karl Urban

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

Karen Black

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Juliette Lewis

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

Julie Kagawa

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Julie London

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

Justin Bieber

What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours...

Geddy Lee

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.

Gayle Forman

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

Gary Cole

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.

Loretta Young

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Lorde

A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

Gail Carson Levine

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

Ntozake Shange

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Ellen DeGeneres

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you

Eric Schlosser

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Eric Allin Cornell

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Ellen Page

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

Judy Blume

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

Leona Lewis

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

Kurtis Blow

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.

John Cusack

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

Lisa Kleypas

The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.

Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Ketch Secor

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

Paul Weyrich

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.

Mary McGrory

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

Mary Cheney

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.