“As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.” WritingPlayWantedFilmNovelCollegeTheaterTeenager Author:Richard Linklater
“I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.” HomeYoungPrayerTalkingParticularArguingScriptureTeenagerContradictionInterpreting Author:Patti Smith
“Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.” ShouldHumorFunnySoundTeenagerHonourBadgesToo Cool Author:Frankie Boyle
“I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"” PeopleEndsMatterFactsHumorBigsFunnyParentLike YouBabyLawyerInsaneHeySmokeTeenagerPotPregnantSpoiledSkatingBig FamiliesRoller Skating Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.” PeopleThinkingTryingYoungBoysEsteemTeenagerAccolades Author:Fergie
“I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.” FeelsBornLondonTeenagerLos AngelesMy Sister Author:Jackie Collins
“I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.” IfsGamesPlayerMetsLosingTeenagerPoolBasementsSnooker Author:Daniel Negreanu
“I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.” NeedsWellsHas BeensYoungInterestProgressFeminismProjectsConceptsIncludingFeministContraryTeenagerNot SureTeensYoung WomenRenewal Author:Laura Mulvey
“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.” PeopleYearsIdeasHandsFacesForeverCollegeRidiculousTeenagerReunitedCollege Years Author:Barry Ptolemy
“I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.” ThinkingWellsTwoBookJobsFilmArtistRecordsImpossibleDirectorsMountainComicTeenagerClimbsComic BookFilm DirectorsIllustratorsTwo Jobs Author:Dave McKean
“Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.” HeartMadeRolesAdviceMy HeartModelsTeenagerRole ModelsMentorDonkeyDonkey Kong Author:Satoshi Tajiri
“The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.” WorldDoeKidsDangerousConnectionsDesertTeenagerBoredIndigenousStigmaDangerous ThingsAboriginal Author:Warwick Thornton
“I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.” YearsMadeYoungMotherInterestBrotherInvolvedTeenagerMy BrotherKitchenMy SisterGet InvolvedStirring Author:Ainsley Harriott
“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.” ThinkingWorldMayLyingLostMy OwnTeacherOfficeCapableSickTeenagerBeing The BestNurseHeadphonesMy Own WorldBest Day Ever Author:Wesley Eisold
“I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.” ThinkingKindStoriesRomanceCan DoImaginationInterestingAdventureDiscoveryTeenagerGenreSci FiBoundlessReally InterestingNew Discoveries Author:Olivia Wilde
“All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.” PeopleThinkingKidsWantedSonPressureAdvertisingTeenagerPerformingMy SonAwkwardVictoriaNo Pressure Author:Tony Blackburn
“In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.” IfsKnowsInspirationalHumansKindDifferentYoungNightOrderHoursHuman BeingsOffersTeenagerSarcasticDifferent KindsIntervals Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.” InspirationalNeedsTragedyTeenagerSicknessAdolescenceTeenageFourteen Book:Cress Delahanty Source: Cress Delahanty
“I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?” WayFirstsWholeFirst TimeFruitWhole LifeTeenager Author:Scott Thompson
“In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.” CharacterCertainNormalTeenagerShyKillersHalloweenSimilarityRepressedJamieMichael Myers Author:John Carpenter
“At the time I came along, Hollywoods idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!” IdeasWantedLastsSexBoysHorrorHollywoodPursuitTeenagerGrossInvolvingNudity Author:John Hughes
“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.” MindChildrenBookWould BeAudienceClearAdultsTeenagerMarley Author:John Grogan
“Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.” KnowsFeelsEnoughLife IsGrowing UpGrowingTvsLike YouScreensTeenagerDramatic Author:Ben Folds
“When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.” ImportantModernContemporaryTeenagerLatinChefNew OrleansMexicanHere I AmCuisinePalate Author:Aaron Sanchez
“As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."” WritingTryingGrowing UpGrowingDrinkingInnocentTeenagerVillageWalesGreat PoetGreat PoetrySoho Author:Andrew Davies
“I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."” PeopleYearsFatherLosesHairTeenager Author:Stanley Tucci
“I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.” ThinkingKindMightYoungAudienceTeenager Author:Joe Wright
“If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.” IfsStillsHappensPerfectImagineAdviceSonTeenagerMy SonImagine ThatPerfect Life Author:Virginia Madsen
“When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.” PeopleSexFeltSexyTeenagerCall MeIconsFlattering Author:Eva Longoria
“I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.” IfsWantTwoHomeKidsWinningLevelsWatchesBloodAdultsDancingScaredViolentTeenagerDirtyGutsScreamGreat TimesDate MovieViolent Movies Author:Eli Roth
“When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.” FirstsListeningSittingDrawingTeenagerPencilsListening To Music Author:Robyn Hitchcock
“I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV...” ThinkingLooksTwoFilmEvilCasesComedyTvsDirectorsInspiredFormerTeenagerWowArizonaEvil Dead Author:Edgar Wright
“I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.” PeopleMindStillsStatesFactsChristianHoursUnitedHalfUnited StatesIssuesCrazyTerribleGayMountainGratefulPrisonTeenagerFortunateIranCracksAnnoyingAddictGay PeopleLobotomyBrokeback Mountain Author:Dan Savage
“I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.” IfsSchoolStarsStudyTroubleRocksAmountFairsTeenagerHanging OutRock StarSkipping School Author:Kristen Wiig
“I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.” FilmInterestTheaterTeenagerFilmmakerAfternoonViewersDowntownSantiago Author:Omar Zuniga
“I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesHardActingTenEgoTeenagerEighteenEighteen Years Old Author:Laura Benanti
“In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.” MotherTeachCasesStrangeMomDaughterTeenagerBackwardsStrange Things Author:Laura Benanti
“I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.” KnowsAttitudeTeenagerPositive Attitude Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.” IfsBelieveMadeMomentsDreamSchoolI BelieveVoiceDecisionHigh SchoolProfoundActressesProfessionDrivenQuittingPursueTeenagerLife Changing Author:Halle Berry
“I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.” Has BeensWantedActorsActingCreativityMetsDirectorsMusic IsPursueTeenagerCould Have BeenGave UpNucleus Author:Lenny Kravitz
“When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.” WorldKindStillsWarHappensWould BeStuffDangerMiracleExpectedPhysicsTeenagerWar Of The WorldsBombsBiologyChemistryWorld War IiWorld War IAnthrax Author:Freeman Dyson
“Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.” MenShowsSufferingCausesSuicideRelateTeenagerReportsStatisticsLeading Causes Author:Ashley Judd
“If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.” IfsThinkingFirstsHumansWellsMomentsFormHuman BeingsHonestKissingWho You AreTeenagerCapturedEdenFirst Kiss Author:Daniel Craig
“It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.” ThinkingYearsStillsImportantMatterHomeRunningYoungStrongHopefullyRelateTeenagerSpiteRunning AwayUpbringingAway From HomeDysfunctional FamilyScotsBeing A TeenagerStrong Family Author:Daniel Craig
“Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.” DadComputerTeenagerMumLaptopsIpadsToddler Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.” ScaryErasTeenagerHeightDisgusting80s Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.” YearsTeenagerTeenageTeenage Years Author:Jonas Mekas
“For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.” KnowsParentFiguresBlessingPressesPhonesTeenagerWhere You AreButtons Author:Daniel Handler
“I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.” ThinkingTwoDifferentKidsUniverseProcessDifficultGrowing UpGrowingAdultsTeenagerDifferent Universes Author:Alice Hoffman
“When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.” PeoplePersonsBlackMy OwnIdentityPrideFindingsRedWindowGreenTeenagerFakeBlack PeopleBobBlack PersonMarleyBlack Pride Author:W. Kamau Bell