Teenage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.
-- Adam Garcia -
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein -
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
-- Alan Ladd -
I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
-- Alice Englert -
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
-- Ally Carter -
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
-- Ally Carter -
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
-- Amy Chua -
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
-- Amy Grant -
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
-- Andrew Greeley -
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
-- Ann Brashares -
I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.
-- Anna Kournikova -
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
-- Antony Sher -
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.
-- Ariel Rechtshaid -
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
-- Armond White -
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
-- Art Buchwald -
Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma—that’s really America
-- Azealia Banks -
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
-- Beth Ditto -
A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair.
-- Bill Maher -
Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work
-- Billy Ocean -
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.... What I believe is, if (Belcher) didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
-- Bob Costas -
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
-- Bobby Sherman -
The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe. . . . It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.
-- Brando Skyhorse -
I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
-- Brian Andreas -
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
-- Bruce Barton -
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Never love anything that can't love you back.
-- Bruce Williams -
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
-- Camille Paglia -
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
-- Carol Burnett -
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
-- Caroline Dhavernas -
I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.
-- Casey Affleck -
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.
-- Cecile Richards -
I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.
-- Chanel Iman -
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.
-- Charlene Tilton -
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
-- Charles Frazier -
The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
-- Charlie Brooker -
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
-- Chester Brown -
There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl.
-- Chris Colfer -
I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.
-- Christina Ricci -
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
-- Clint Eastwood -
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.
-- Colin MacInnes -
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
-- Colin Meloy -
It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.
-- Dan Ariely -
I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.
-- Dan Quayle -
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
-- Dana Hill -
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
-- Danica McKellar -
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
-- Dario Argento -
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
-- Dave Barry -
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
-- Dave Barry -
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
-- Dave Lombardo -
You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.
-- David Cassidy -
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.
-- David Cook -
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
-- David Levithan -
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.
-- David Robertson -
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
-- Dean Kamen -
People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.
-- Diablo Cody -
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
-- Diane Cilento -
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
-- Diane Lane -
I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.
-- Dito Montiel -
Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you
-- Donna Ball -
I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
-- Douglas Booth -
I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.
-- Dylan Moran -
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
-- E. W. Howe -
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
-- Edgar Friedenberg -
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
-- Edgar Friedenberg -
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.
-- Edwin Moses -
Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
-- Eric Allin Cornell -
From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume
-- Eric Jensen -
Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.
-- Eric Schlosser -
I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.
-- Ernest Cline -
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
-- Ernie Harwell -
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
-- Esther Williams -
This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.
-- F. Paul Wilson -
Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.
-- Faye Wattleton -
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.
-- Frank Turner -
If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto.
-- Frankie Boyle -
If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.
-- Fred Bear -
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
-- Gary Cole -
I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.
-- Geddy Lee -
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
-- Gene Tierney -
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
-- George Foreman -
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
-- George William Curtis -
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
-- Georges Bernanos
