Quotes About Not Being A Teenager

#1. The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.

G. Willow Wilson

#2. I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

Ira Sachs

#3. 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

#4. When you're a teenager, being different- if it's not by choice - seems like the worst thing imaginable. But is it really?

Sara Raasch

#5. I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Molly Ringwald

#6. As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.

Carl Sutton

#7. I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.

Oddny Eir

#8. I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

Katrina D. Miller

#9. I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work.

Prince Royce

#10. He nodded, brushed hair off my face, and headed from the kitchen.
"I hate being a teenager."
"Why?"
"Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.

Jodi Meadows

#11. One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn't as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

William Gibson

#12. Isn't that part of being a teenager? Discovering who we are? Who we want to be?

Kasie West

#13. Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

#14. I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.

Ryan Montgomery

#15. The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

Warwick Thornton

#16. I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

Markus Zusak

#17. I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

Christine Teigen

#18. He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#19. I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

Lydhia Marie

#20. 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

#21. When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

Kristen Stewart

#22. Nan, I'm cursed."
"Yeah, I know. We all are." Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a magazine from Mina's nightstand. "It's called being a teenager.

Chanda Hahn

#23. The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Rob Lowe

#24. I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

Mark Feehily

#25. When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

Taylor Swift

#26. I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you're alone. You're not alone. You're not the only one going through what you're going through, and life does get better if you want it to.

Ellie Elisabeth

#27. Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Melody Carlson

#28. I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

Christina Ricci

#29. Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

Troian Bellisario

#30. I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.

Phil Collins

#31. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

#32. To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

Evan Esar

#33. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Ian Astbury

#34. My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Angelina Jolie

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

J.K. Rowling

#36. Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Melvin Burgess

#37. Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Solange Knowles

#38. I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

Yenz Leonhardt

#39. Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.

Patricia Briggs

#40. I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

Marcia Cross

#41. I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.

Adam Lamberg

#42. Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Jodi Picoult

#43. I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

Gia Coppola

#44. It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Kay Panabaker

#45. Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you

Ellen DeGeneres

#46. From being in the industry as a teenager, I'm so used to getting makeup done all day.

Lil' Kim

#47. As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

Rob Corddry

#48. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

#49. Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

Holly Robinson Peete

#50. When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Nas

#51. I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

#52. All of her aunts said that Bridget looked exactly like her mother as a teenager. Staring at her, Bridget realised she had no memories of her mother being thin.

Siobhan Vivian

#53. It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

David Crabb

#54. When you're a teenager - How do you determine what being a Christian looks like, if you're not willing to be as transparent as the realty TV world we live in? If we are to make it easy for others to find God, we must be more diligent about sharing our stories, openly and honestly.

Sarah Jakes

#55. Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

#56. Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

Cullen Hightower

#57. In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

FKA Twigs

#58. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.

Kendrick Lamar

#59. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe

#60. Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Anna Paquin

#61. I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out there who would answer those questions, and so, if I can take a few minutes to do it, I will. It's not threatening for us. We're not being stalked, so it's easier.

John August

#62. I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.

Trevor Noah