“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 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.
“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”
“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.”
“I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.”
“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.”
“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”
“I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.”
“To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.”
“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”
“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.”
“Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”