Quotes About Rebellion

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.

I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.

When I was a rebellious teenager, I wanted minimum government and maximum freedom, which is really just maximum fun. Somewhere down the road, that went from being a liberal thing to being a conservative thing.

When I was a teenager, I was very political.

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

Our relationship with presidents is often like that of a teenager and parent. He's our leader, but sometimes we rail against his decisions for us. We push back at times to make sure he knows who's boss.

All teenagers feel like aliens on occasion, and they all have secrets to share.