“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”
Being a teenager is like being handed the controls of a plane mid-flight and told to figure it out. These quotes capture the intensity, confusion, idealism, and raw emotion of the years between childhood and adulthood.
“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”
“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”
“Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.”
“When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.”
“When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'”
“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.”
“Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.”
“Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.”
“Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.”
“I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.”
“I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.”
“I hate it when people call me a teen queen.”
“If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.”
“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 I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.”
“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”