Teenager Quotes
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
Ted Cruz
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I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
Malorie Blackman
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When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.
Kurt Vile
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Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.
Billy Howle
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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
Mark Haddon
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When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.
Maura Tierney
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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
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I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris
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I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
Karl Urban
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I feel very fortunate that while I had a little bit of personal panic or maybe a little internal struggle as a teenager, really coming to terms with the fact that I was gay, and also knowing I was going to have to tell my family. And, how was that going to affect things? And would it affect things? And ultimately, it did not.
Andrew Rannells
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Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
Zoe Saldana
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
John Roger Stephens
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
Billy Crystal
