Teenager Quotes

• If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understanding
  • Parent
  • Consistent

• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Happy

• I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Time
  • School
  • Home

• I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Star

• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Books
  • Experienced
  • Favourite

• I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Actress

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Long
  • Important

• I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Street
  • Shot
  • Off

• When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Mother
  • Space
  • Lonely

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Pleasure

• My personal memories of the brand go way back to the time when I was a teenager. L'Oreal make-up felt like a real luxury for me, and I remember dreaming of purchasing a L'Oreal lipstick.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Need

• As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Healthy
  • Rejection
  • Weight

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Young
  • Company
  • Entrepreneur

• Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

  

  Brad Falchuk
  • Desire
  • Teenager

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Inspired
  • Voice

• When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Music
  • Play
  • Passion

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

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