Teen Quotes

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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 progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

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.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

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.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

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.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

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.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!