Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keri Russell

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Nikki Sixx

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

Marv Albert

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Nicholas Sparks

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

Nicholas Sparks

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

Natasha Bedingfield

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

Natasha Lyonne

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

Mark Wahlberg

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

Nicholas Hoult

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

Ned Vizzini

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Patrick Ness

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

Patricia Arquette

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

Park Dietz

You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.

Lea Salonga

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

LeAnn Rimes

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

Kaya Scodelario

I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.

Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Leelee Sobieski

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Rainn Wilson

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Lenny Kravitz

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.

Laura Benanti

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.

Lester Bangs

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Karl Urban

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

Juliette Lewis

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

Julie Kagawa

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

Joyce Meyer

Teenagers are people too!

Patrick Wilson

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Patrick Dempsey

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Paul McCartney

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

Paul McCartney

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.