Top 100 Quotes About Teen
#1. -Question: "On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?"- David: "You are just asking me this because I am gay ... What the fuck does that mean?" -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-
David Levithan
#2. Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
Willie Aames
#3. I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Kenneth Lonergan
#4. Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.
Pattie Mallette
#5. I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.
Andy Dick
#6. The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.
George Takei
#7. I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#8. I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.
Jamie Bell
#10. In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
John Lahr
#11. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
John Green
#12. As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.
Julie Carmen
#14. Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice ... Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never look at any teen, or yourself, the same again. All you see is the child they once were.
Claire Fontaine
#15. When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn't it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?
Matthew Kelly
#16. I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.
Rex Smith
#17. I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
Sarah Dessen
#18. Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
Ally Condie
#19. If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.
Max Irons
#21. In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.
Tyler Hoechlin
#22. Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
Devon Sawa
#23. Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
Gia Coppola
#24. I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
Maggie Stiefvater
#25. Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'
Chelsea Handler
#26. He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [ ... ], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.
David Baldacci
#27. Home should be the shelter where the teen is understood and loved, where he is encouraged and shown the paths of life.
Tedd Tripp
#28. For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.
John Irving
#29. As a teen, I was an angst on wheels, and as an adult, I'm essentially a young, half-Greek Larry David in heels-incapable of hiding discomfort, dissatisfaction, or doubt, inescapably myself and often honest to a fault.
Sophia Amoruso
#30. I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.
Lorde
#31. I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
Michelle Branch
#32. I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
Natasha Lyonne
#33. Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
David Wilkerson
#34. As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
Rosemary Mahoney
#35. The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.
Paula Garces
#36. I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
Kiesza
#37. One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
Susan Orlean
#38. I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
Kirsten Dunst
#39. Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
Mike Huckabee
#40. I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.
Mia Kirshner
#41. It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.
Robin Wasserman
#42. I'm glad that my journey has been gradual and slow, instead of instant, because that allowed me to grow and discover who I am before I was thrown into the world. I'm happy I didn't start acting professionally as a kid/teen; looking back, I don't think I was ready.
Jade Hassoune
#43. I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#44. 'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.
Aeriel Miranda
#45. I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?
Anna Chlumsky
#46. Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.
Fred Rogers
#47. I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.
Daria Werbowy
#48. I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
Rachel Zoe
#49. I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
Adam Brody
#50. I hated puberty. It had been that horrible stage from child hood, to pre teen, and my stage from ugly, to ugly with menstrual cramps.
Melissa Grijalva
#51. I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.
Seth Gabel
#52. As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
Henry Rollins
#53. During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.
Martha Plimpton
#54. I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
Willie Aames
#55. Remember, our very first job is to appropriately monitor our teen's safety. After all, if we're not successful at that, then any discussion of cognitive skills is irrelevant.
Madeline Levine
#56. We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me.
John Slattery
#57. I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
J.K. Simmons
#59. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Vicki M. Taylor
#60. Teen angst is so boring, isn't it? I try so hard not to be a cliche, but it's like written in my DNA to hate my parents and be totally unsatisfied with everything. I wonder if there's anyone our age who actually likes their life.
Amy Reed
#61. People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had. It's hard. Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have. That being said, it's very demanding of you, in so many different ways.
Shelley Hennig
#62. People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#63. The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
Sean Covey
#64. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
Priya Ardis
#65. When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
Blake McIver Ewing
#66. When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.
Courtney Barnett
#67. And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
Ellen Hopkins
#68. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.
Lauren Mayberry
#69. I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
Tayari Jones
#70. Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.
Erin O'Connor
#72. If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
Andrew Shue
#73. If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
Ace Antonio Hall
#74. Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
John Walters
#75. To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
Curtis Armstrong
#76. I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.
Tom Jones
#77. The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.
Laurence Steinberg
#78. The Sweeping Aside Motion This means, the past is in the past. Helping your teen win the war isn't about questioning what you could have done yesterday. It is about establishing a battle plan for what you are going to do today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Jeffrey Dean
#80. Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.
Willie Geist
#81. When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
Chris Evans
#82. My jeans, the ones I got from the teen section, the ones made for chicks. And I look fucking perfect in them.
C.M. Stunich
#83. There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter ... I'm just being me.
Justin Bieber
#84. When I was young, a teen, fresh as a glass of water, my first lover said I should break the mirror and never seek on out again. He was right, of course.
Chloe Thurlow
#85. Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
Wendy Mogel
#86. I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.
Lili Simmons
#87. I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen ... that's huge. It awes me.
Sarah Dessen
#88. The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
Ann Brashares
#89. I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
Lana Del Rey
#90. When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
Rob Lowe
#91. I'm just living my life and I'm being the best mother that I can and showing that on 'Teen Mom' because that's what that show is about.
Farrah Abraham
#92. Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
Michelle Alexander
#93. Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
Justin Timberlake
#94. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
Tamora Pierce
#95. I can do this thing called the 'eyebrow wave,' where I can move my eyebrows in a ... wave-ular motion, whatever you call it. I feel like all the teen magazines have sucked me dry of my cool talents.
Victoria Justice
#96. I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.
Sophie Turner
#97. I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
Josh Hartnett
#98. Area Teen Pretty Sure Day Can't Get Worse, Is Wrong About That
Nicola Yoon
#99. My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.
Dustin Milligan
#100. I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.
Ben Aaronovitch
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