“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.”
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.
“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.”
“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.”
“So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!”
“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.”
“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”
“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”
“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.”
“I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.”
“I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.”
“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”
“Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.”
“I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.”
“To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.”