Teenage Quotes

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

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.

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

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.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

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.'

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

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.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.

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.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.