Teenage Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

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

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.