“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”
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.
“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”
“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”
“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”
“I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.”
“Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.”
“I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.”
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
“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.”
“I hate it when people call me a teen queen.”
“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.”
“Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.”
“Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.”
“Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.”
“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.”
“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 was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”