Top 100 Quotes About A Teenager
#1. In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May
#2. For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
Maajid Nawaz
#3. I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
Miranda Otto
#4. I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Nikki Sixx
#5. As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
Sarah Gavron
#6. As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
Jane Green
#7. But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
Wayne Kramer
#8. My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.
Anna Kournikova
#9. 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
#10. As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
Elton John
#12. The grin got bigger. Shadow found himself remembering a PBS show he had seen as a teenager, about chimpanzees. The show claimed that when apes and chimps smile it's only to bare their teeth in a grimace of hate or aggression or terror. When a chimp grins, it's a threat. This grin was one of those.
Neil Gaiman
#13. No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
Aimee Teegarden
#14. Side note: is anyone else grateful social media wasn't a thing when they were a teenager? It's like Draco Malfoy and all three Heathers smooshed into one invisible organism that thrives on Internet memes and passive aggression.
Brittany Gibbons
#15. I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.
Rivers Cuomo
#16. I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.
Olivia Wilde
#18. As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.
Alicia Sacramone
#19. I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
Laura Bell Bundy
#20. I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.
Trina Robbins
#21. I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.
Gold Panda
#22. As a teenager, I always intended to do my homework. But when the supplicant dead come to you for justice and you also have occasional prophetic dreams, life tends to interfere with your studies.
Dean Koontz
#23. When I was a teenager, her habit of cramming a bunch of words into one line, plus the way her lyrics tend to start with small particularities and ripple outward into universal truths, lodged itself into my ears and wound up directly on my pages.
Meghan Daum
#24. As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
Christina Ricci
#25. 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
#26. You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.
Margaret Stohl
#27. There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
Justin Townes Earle
#28. Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Lynda Barry
#29. 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
#30. My mother read it when she was a teenager," Henry said, picking a piece of lint off his lap. "To Kill a Mockingbird. The day she accepted my father's proposal, she gave him a copy and told him that Atticus Finch is the kind of father she wants her husband to be.
Ophelia London
#31. As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.
Ronnie Shakes
#32. I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.
Bindi Irwin
#33. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.
Karin Slaughter
#34. 'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
Suzanne Collins
#35. The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
William Landay
#36. All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.
Tony Blackburn
#37. I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
Carla Korbes
#38. I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Dhani Harrison
#39. So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
Stephen Covey
#40. Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
Melody Carlson
#41. She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?
John Feinstein
#42. Linh Cinder. The renown. The reputation. The approval rating. New Beijing's best mechanic was ... a teenager? Kai was intrigued. He was amused, but more than that, he was impressed.
Marissa Meyer
#43. By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
Frank Frazetta
#44. When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
Graham Moore
#45. When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.
Mae Whitman
#46. Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.
Thomm Quackenbush
#47. I hated high school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you.
Stephen King
#48. I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.
Chuck Klosterman
#49. And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
Roger Ebert
#50. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.
Caitlin Moran
#51. I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.
Katherine Boo
#52. To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Ellen Burstyn
#53. As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
Peter Snell
#54. Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a girl's coming of age. Getting to know Jessica was like meeting a new best friend. I miss her already.
Atoosa Rubenstein
#55. I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.
John Darnielle
#56. I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.
Ice Cube
#57. 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.
Juliette Lewis
#58. As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
Mia Wasikowska
#59. [About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.
Lana Del Rey
#60. 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
#61. 'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.
Libba Bray
#62. On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
James Blunt
#63. Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.
Donal Logue
#64. I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.
Marc Jacobs
#65. I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.
Michael Steele
#66. Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
Nikki Reed
#67. 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
#68. When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
Taylor Swift
#69. I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
Michael Sims
#70. I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.
Tod Machover
#71. What you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates,
Caitlin Moran
#72. I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
Jon Hamm
#73. When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people.
Ray Bradbury
#74. Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better.
Arthur Nersesian
#75. As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn Ashmore
#76. When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
Diego Luna
#77. When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
Nick Park
#78. Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
Anne Graham Lotz
#80. 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
#81. I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.
Craig Ferguson
#82. Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow
#83. I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.
RuPaul
#84. She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved.
Lisa Genova
#85. When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
Noomi Rapace
#86. As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#87. I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.
Snoop Dogg
#88. When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.
Robert Pinsky
#89. Lindsay was a teenager...at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and caring too much about how others perceive you.
J.D. Vance
#90. Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.
J.R. Moehringer
#91. By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.
Joe Zee
#92. Schoolboy, a teenager, with a teenager's innocence and
Anita Shreve
#93. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
Iwan Rheon
#94. When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
Ben Folds
#96. If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
Alanis Morissette
#97. When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
Christina Ricci
#99. When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.
Joe Torre
#100. 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.
Kurtis Blow
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