“I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist? And when I was a teenager. I thought I would be a film-maker. Am I a musician? If so, what kind of musician am I?” IfsKindWould BeFilmArtistChoicesMusicianTeenagerVisualsMakersVisual ArtMaking ChoicesTime Of My LifeVisual Artist Author:David Toop
“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.” KnowsWantTryingLittlesFeelingsBigsDifferencesOpinionBrotherDadToughMy DadDrunkTeenagerClashTestosteroneDifferences Of OpinionBeing A TeenagerMy Big Brother Author:Ryan Montgomery
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that's not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there.” TryingHardSeemsGirlChallengesLinesNormalTeenagerTeenageHere And ThereSassyMoodyTeenage GirlQuintessential Author:Alycia Debnam Carey
“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some kind of solid ground in an environment that was quicksand in my life, it's that first line just kills me all the time: "Well it's just that your sister said you'd be OK."” TryingFirstsWellsKindLongSaidMomentsLinesEnvironmentListeningLong TimeBeatsConfusionTeenagerKill MeKevinQuicksand Author:Andy Kim
“I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.” WorldYearsViewsTalkingKnownGratefulTeenagerSixtyOld WomanIncorporatingMusic MakingRecording Music Author:Annie Lennox
“Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.” KnowsMenGivingKindMy OwnPerspectiveTeenagerRemindersSwollenLife And Time Author:Chuck D
“I was more intrigued by the relationship [in Felicity]; the idea of these two teenagers who were placed together. What would that be like, and what would it be like to watch that unravel. Living together, and having babies with somebody, missing out on your whole childhood, and then spending all these years with someone. I was more intrigued by that.” YearsTwoIdeasWholeTogetherWatchesChildhoodMissingBabySpendingTeenagerIntriguedFelicityHaving A BabyLiving TogetherMissing Out Author:Keri Russell
“I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.” PeopleWayKindChildrenTwoMatterCharacterKidsParentCapableSmartWho You AreTeenagerViciousUndoneComplicationWhere You Live Author:Keri Russell
“I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.” PeopleLittlesRememberTeenagerBeing RealImpressedLittle TimeBeing A Teenager Author:Amanda Palmer
“With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.” WayMeanChildrenEmotionHigherAdultsTeenagerDramatic Author:Sara Shepard
“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.” SchoolStuffMy OwnHigh SchoolGuitarTeenager Author:Kathy Bates
“Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.” PeopleSawsOne DayGood ThingsInsightAlcoholTeenagerPlusLitAlcoholicsAlcoholics Anonymous Author:Van Morrison
“There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.” FeelsFirstsLike YouTeenagerCrushSincereEpicBeing A TeenagerFirst Crush Author:Sofia Coppola
“It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.” PeopleAgeTeenagerBugs Author:Sofia Coppola
“The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.” DifferentCharacterActorsTeenagerDifferent Characters Author:Michael Fassbender
“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?” WellsHardHomeKidsGuyTeachTaughtListeningRacismAgreeRapTeenagerThat GuyRap Music Author:Jay-Z
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.” PeopleWorldLoveKindAgeSchoolChristianTurnsLeftChurchJusticeChangedNeededGayHigh SchoolInjusticeLabelsTeenagerCategoriesGood PeopleIgnoredLiedPeace And JusticeContainersSortingBeing LiedGreat ChristianGay FriendInjustice In The World Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber
“So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'” FeelsWellsCriticsTeenagerRespondingSassyOxymoron Author:Jane Pratt
“When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.” FirstsWould BeWantedFacesActorsActingRolesSeeingTvsProductionsLike MeTeenagerIndianOperaCastingExposureSoapSoap OperasDisillusioned Author:Meera Menon
“I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".” FilmSawsCreaturesHollywoodTeenager Author:Nan Goldin
“Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.” KnowsWantKnow HowPoliceInjusticeTeenager Author:Dolores Huerta
“When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.” MindIdeasCreativeTeenagerNutsCreative Mind Author:Christian Siriano
“Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.” ChildrenKidsPassionGroupsYouthClintonTeenagerChicagoSuburbsMethodists Author:Tim Kaine
“We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.” KnowsHardEnoughTeenagerComing OutBeing A Teenager Author:Tanya Plibersek
“Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.” FactsTerribleGenderDebateTeenagerComing OutLove SomeoneTerrible ThingsBeing A Teenager Author:Tanya Plibersek
“I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!” MindCharacterSweetDrawsTeenager Author:Declan Shalvey
“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.” PeopleYearsFirstsDoneShowsWaitingBlackParticularProjectsTheaterTeenagerChicagoSustainingStrawberriesCreeksBerkeley Author:Robert Hass
“I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.” FeelsTryingFacesLyingSoundSidesLike YouGrewGrew UpMovedEastTeenagerBelievableHarlemEast Side Author:Zoe Leonard
“I'm very much thinking in music most of the time, but I really would love to start filming because when I was a teenager, that was my big hobby and it was always fun for me to explore that world.” ThinkingWorldBigsFunTeenagerHobbies Author:Trentemøller
“Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.” PeopleWantTryingAgeChildhoodCollegeDegreesDistanceTeenagerChildish Things Author:Mara Wilson
“On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantUseHandsFineInternetMassThreatTeenagerBad ThingsInteractionSuperficialPercentages Author:Noam Chomsky
“Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of those behaviors will be mainstream behaviors tomorrow.” NeedsTodayCompanyLeaderWatchesTomorrowBehaviorTeenagerMainstream Author:Scott D. Anthony
“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.” ThinkingInspirationalStarsMillionsBecomingPercentScientistTeenagerNbaRealisticTeensEngineersTeenage Author:Dean Kamen
“I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.” PeopleTryingFirstsSeemsKidsParentMemoriesForgetBrainTeenagerAdolescence Author:Maia Szalavitz
“When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.” YearsLooksRealAgeWantedFilmGrowing UpGrowingTheaterTeenagerTeenage Author:Larry Clark
“As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.” LittlesGuyStyleTeenagerLovecraft Author:Stephen King
“Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!” Has BeensDoneRoomsForeverDoubtStyleTeenagerPrintTimelessWhen In DoubtChicLeopardsLeopard Print Author:Khloe Kardashian
“I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite for beer. The first time I got drunk my father found me throwing up in the bathroom. I was 15, maybe 16, and the disappointment in his voice, I can hear it to this day, and the sorrow that that brought to him. He just felt like a failure as a father, and Id give anything to take that day back because that was so hard on him. In time, my life got better, and his did too, but that was really memorable, one of those memories Id like to forget.” GivingFirstsI CanHardFoundFatherFeltParentVoiceMemoriesForgetSpecialSorrowFirst TimeDisappointmentDrunkTeenagerBeerMemorableThis DayThrowingAppetiteBathroomInsatiableThrowing Up Author:Max Lucado
“They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.” ThinkingEndsMinutesExpectedTeenager Author:Mary Downing Hahn
“Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don't know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the '50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don't think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can't - your brain just can't go there!” IfsThinkingKnowsWayHas BeensCertainFeltMemoriesBrainKnow HowHarderTeenagerCollectivesPrincessGrandparentThink Of YouBeing A Teenager Author:Vanessa Kirby
“Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.” WantSaidClintonTeenagerTreatmentInvoluntary Author:Peter Breggin
“Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.” PeopleStillsFactsYoungGuyChanceFieldsYouthBabyTeenagerBackup Author:Sharon Jones
“People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.” PeopleFunTeenager Author:Rose Byrne
“When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.” WritingYearsDifferentSelfMightYoungTalkingFiveGroupsTaughtSixConsciousAdultsSevenTeenagerSeven YearsSelf ConsciousDetachedBe Young Author:Alice Mattison
“[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.” ThinkingTraditionTeenager Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“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.” ThinkingChildrenMomentsUseTalkingTalesTeenagerFairyWhere You AreRelevantFairy TaleWhere You Are Going Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.” TryingYearsFirstsKindHas BeensWantedFunActingFocusChangedYeahTeenagerLazySay AnythingSmall PartsCool Movie Author:Alia Shawkat
“Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.” PeopleYearsTodayYoungLosesGayAwfulTeenagerTransgender Author:Cleve Jones
“When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.” SaidStatesKidsNightSpeakSoundVoiceUnitedUnited StatesSweetBrotherMonthsBrokeTeenagerSpokesDucksChordsVocalOne NightElevenShatteredParrotsOlder BrotherVietnamese Author:Andrew Lam