Teenager Quotes

• When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Time
  • Different
  • Teenager

• I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Teenager
  • Shy
  • Insecure

• I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Teen

• All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Thought

• When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Teenager

• I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Small

• As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Teenager

• As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • She
  • Teenager

• I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

  

  Mary Quant
  • School
  • Teenager

• As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.

  

  John Allison
  • Kids
  • Science
  • Reading

• I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Teenager
  • Granted

• I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Character
  • Growing

• Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.'

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Style
  • Like
  • Back

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

  

  Matt Lucas
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Teenager

• It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Dream
  • Band

• I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

  

  Iman
  • She
  • Age
  • Confidence

• Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Changed

• Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Songs
  • Face
  • Airwaves

• I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Teenager

• I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Reality
  • Teenager

• When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.

  

  Ashley Jones
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.

  

  Tony Danza
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.

  

  James Adomian
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Teenager

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