Teenager Quotes

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

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.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography.

Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education.

She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

I haven't really forgotten what it's like to be a teenager and how much it sucked.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

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

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.

I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me;

I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom.

The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

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.

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor.

I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

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

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.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last.

I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

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.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe.

I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair;

I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

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.

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.'

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.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager.

I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager.

I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

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

I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

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.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.