Teenager Quotes

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

Teenagers are people too!

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do.

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

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.