Teenager Quotes
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As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
Jim Lee
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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.
Dave Wakeling
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My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
Aisha Tyler
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I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
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I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
Natalie Portman
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz
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It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened,
and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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As a teenager, skincare is about putting no oil on your skin because you don't want any blemishes, and then in your thirties, you're putting as much oil as it can take to avoid wrinkles!
Katie Holmes
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As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.
Jenna Wortham
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I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.
Laura Pausini
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As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.
Jesse Andrews
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With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.
Sara Shepard
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When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 - in sets of 30 or so. Looking back on it now, I'm not totally sure that's the best way to improve as a climber. But it did make me a lot better at doing pull-ups and push-ups.
Alex Honnold
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Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
Sarah Polley
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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.
Jesmyn Ward
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All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.
Saoirse Ronan
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I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.
Charles Bock
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I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.
Adam Scott
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I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
Lou Doillon
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I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Sara Paxton
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It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
Jonathan Franklin
